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Palm Beach Daily News: Mack riding high with big-time horse award
The lifetime achievement award, given by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, will be presented at the 51st Eclipse Awards on Feb. 10 at Santa Anita Park. OK, but “lifetime” achievement? The guy’s 83. In Palm Beach, 83 means your just-vacated seat on the junior committee is still warm.
Daily Racing Forum: Earle I. Mack to receive Eclipse Award of Merit
Earle I. Mack, who has bred and raced Thoroughbreds for nearly 60 years and been one of the sport’s most prolific benefactors, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, considered the sport’s highest honor, the administrators of the award announced on Wednesday.
Mack, 83, will join a distinguished roster of racing titans who have been selected for the Award of Merit, which is not awarded every year. The Award of Merit has not been awarded since 2018, prior to the pandemic.
Earle Mack To Receive Eclipse Award of Merit
Former U.S. Ambassador, owner, breeder and founder of the Man O’ War Project to accept honor at 51st Eclipse Awards at Santa Anita Park on February 10.
‘Innovative Equine Therapy Helps Overcome PTSD Symptoms
Equine therapy, which involves interactions with horses in a controlled environment, reduces fear and other symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new research suggests.
Results from a study of about 60 military veterans who underwent weekly sessions of horse-assisted therapy showed “marked reductions” in clinican-rated and self-reported symptoms of PTSD and depression up to 3 months posttreatment.
Jockey Club Man O’War Project Interview
Watch the Jockey Club Interview about the Man O’War Project here and find out more about the Project!
This Memorial Day, It Feels a Little Bit Like War
By Sue Finley They'll run the Belmont Stakes next Saturday, and as we lead up to the event, there will be more conversation about all of the unpleasant things we've been talking about lately: syringes in barns, drugs and bans, guilt or innocence, crime and punishment. We'll be asked to justify our...
Published Study Finds Equine-Assisted Therapy Effective
Columbia University study was funded by Earle I. Mack and others in racing. By BloodHorse Staff An eight-week study of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder who participated in equine-assisted therapy found evidence at the neurobiological level that such programs are effective in treating...
Man O’ War Study Finds Equine Therapy Helpful for PTSD
By T.D. Thornton and Sue Finley Although using equine-assisted therapies (EAT) to help people overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been long believed to be effective via anecdotal results, a recent exploratory scientific study declares that it “is the first to demonstrate that EAT...
Published Study From Man o’ War Project Finds Equine-Assisted Therapy Effective
CONTENT PROVIDED BY BloodHorse An eight-week study of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder who participated in equine-assisted therapy found evidence at the neurobiological level that such programs are effective in treating the ailment, which may occur in people who have experienced or...
The challenge facing an equine therapy centre helping trauma victims turn their lives around
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary featured the Man o'War Project, on September 23, 2019. An excerpt follows: The Baltimore County Equine Center is found in a corner of the Maryland countryside that looked on a recent sunbaked July morning as though it had been torn from a John Henry Twachtman...
Man O’ War Project Advances
By Audax Two summers ago, Quest profiled Ambassador Earle Mack and his innovative Man O’ War Project (MOW). Named after racing’s “mostest horse,” MOW set out to prove that equine therapy would be an effective treatment for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic...
Veterans, experts say horse therapy shows promise as PTSD treatment
These are not your average service animals. For the first time ever, a clinical research study has been funded – not by the government, but by a private citizen – to investigate the potential benefits of pairing patients with PTSD, specifically veterans, and horses. And the early results are...
Men, and Women, of War Find Solace in Mack’s Program
Of all the terrible things that mankind has inflicted upon one another, there is none so terrible as war. Estimates of the total number of people killed in war in the history of the world range up to a billion lives, and for the combatants, oftentimes just surviving the conflict seems like the...
Horses Helping with PTSD
For many of our military veterans, it’s difficult to go to war and return home as the same person. Our service members often experience traumatic, life-changing events during their deployments, and the scars from those experiences can manifest as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There are...
Aftercare Assist – Air Force vet honored by Man o’War Project at Plimco
On May 18th at the Sir Barton Stakes the Earle I. Mack Foundation, as lead sponsor for the race to benefit the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and the Man o'War Project, honored U.S. Air Force senior master sergeant Tei Pascal. Read the full article here.
Earle I. Mack Foundation to Sponsor Sir Barton Stakes at 2019 Preakness Day
BALTIMORE, May 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Earle I. Mack Foundation is pleased to announced that it will be the lead sponsor for the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes, held during the 2019 Preakness Weekend at Pimlico Race Cource. Taking place on May 18, the Sir Barton Stakes will benefit the...
The Man O’War Project
The Man O’ War Project, founded by Earle I. Mack in partnership with Columbia University Irving Medical Center, appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of The Virginia Sportsman. The article, authored by editor Joe Shields, discusses the motivation behind, and goals of, this groundbreaking study into...
The Man O’ War Project on Fox News’ “The Five”
The Man O’ War Project, founded by Earle I. Mack in partnership with Columbia University Irving Medical Center, was featured by Fox News’ Dana Perino on “The Five” on Thursday, January 10th. Ms. Perino was kind enough to share the segment on Facebook and Instagram, which you can visit and share by...
A Vital Purpose: The Man O’ War Project brings veterans and horses together to treat PTSD
The Horsemen’s Journal, Winter 2018 By Judy L. Marchman A little horse therapy can go a long way. Anyone who owns or works with horses understands the natural lift given by being around these noble animals. And that special bond between horse and human could be a key to helping treat military...
Dr. Neria and Dr. Fisher Discuss the Man O’ War Project, PTSD, Equine-Assisted Therapy, and Veteran’s Day
The Man O’ War Project at Columbia University Irving Medical Center is the first university-led research trial to establish manualized guidelines for the application of Equine-Assisted Therapy for treating veterans with PTSD (EAT-PTSD) and to examine the effectiveness of this promising new...