And we kind of call them our hospice cases and they're in kidney failure or heart failure, but we just try to give them love for the rest of their days. It's not like you just say, “Oh God, I'm just going to save these dogs and stuff” because there's so much heartache to it. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. And so we made pens at my house and at Danny's farm and then we leaned again on our horse community to find them homes. But I also I find hope in my responsibility to the community overall. This article is a transcript of this conference call produced for The Motley Fool. I’m curious, what was it about the Monitor that drew you to us? But a lot of what I do, I do for my son, and I do to really try to carve out a world for him that’s better than this world. So it's been a, been a very interesting journey, but I think now there are truly horses that are stamped as Derby horses, which has really been fun for me to be able to watch the evolution and even go back, like I said, look in our archives [and see] just how far the horses have come and what makes a Derby horse. That is something that I feel compelled to, to carve out. And so I just feel that that's something that to me, if I had a young horse, I would start doing the National Derbies first. There are great horses that are high performance horses, but a Derby horse. We were lucky enough for our Katrina work in 2008, we were the ASPCA Honorees of the Year. unless you renew or It was said. The first trip we sent supplies down and asked them what they needed. Transcript: Microsoft Doc file | Adobe PDF file | Let us know if these formats work for you. And then we bring them along. Sonix transcribes podcasts, interviews, speeches, and much more for creative people worldwide. Ken: I would say that my approach really gives me the level ground and the perspective that I need to be able to write just with the intent of wanting to inform and empower the reader. I took him back and let him go back to the stall and pee, and he won all four working classes but horses tell us things. And I think it's really important as the horseman that you have got to be able to read your horses and you cannot—I mean, I really stress this—there is no way you can train them all the same because they, they all tell us something different. And then we would try to lean on our horse friends to give them homes. He's also the founder of Apache Spark, the open-source project that Databricks is built on, and is an accomplished researcher at UC Berkley's computer science department. I was teaching in the indoor arena and I could hear the crackle sound, and we ran outside and all of a sudden it was like a domino effect. You know, the interesting thing I find even like with so many warmbloods. And they're going to donate some of the proceeds to us, but they're, they're actually making 100,000 puzzles and they're an international puzzle company. And then instead of a profound societal change, I think there’s more of a focus of saying, hey, how do we get back to the status quo? He attended a community college while teaching at a local barn before renting his own place and building a roster of clients. He much prefers somehow changing the country through law, through politics, if it's possible. They all just live as a one big family. And I may even at Indoors, like I said we would school, you'd get off, I'd run back. Wherever that positive dog goes, that scared dog has to go because our dog trainer said never let them go hide under the desk or a couch or behind a chair because they will turn their brain off. Well, a Derby horse is very special in that, the Derby classes, especially the final, the jumps are very big. We took 22 dogs up to Harrisburg and placed them all with horse people. It takes a lot of courage to do it. )—is from the NIV (not the ESV because I learned it way back then). Ron and I spoke on the phone last fall about a variety of topics. Longines FEI World Cup™ North American League. Now, let’s jump right into the conversation with Ron, where he talks about how he first became interested in riding and competing. So where do you turn when you’re looking for hope? And if you really get into it, you will get a lot of gratification out of it. If you don't want your dog in 10 years, we will pay and send transport and bring them back to us.” Because Danny and I vowed many years ago that they would never end up in the shelter again. And so after we had that dinner, Bill decided to let us all keep moving forward and to try to develop the International Hunter Derby. And getting their feet wet, doing that. And we did that. So for those horses it's not so bad because they have been challenged already in the jumper field. I think I think in a rider–horse combination, one of the most important pieces is that—and we always stress this with our riders. In addition to his professional success, Ron is equally well-known as co-founder of Danny & Ron’s Rescue, a nonprofit that rescues and rehomes more than 900 dogs a year. We have completely turned that house into dog friendly. So thank you very much. It was the big question and now you don't hear the navicular very much. But any of them that we get and we think are rideable will break and train, and because we do this for a living. But as I read through his proposal, I was struck by the feeling that I was talking to a Monitor journalist – we just hadn’t met him yet. When you look at post slavery, post reconstruction, post Jim Crow era. So I took that over, after we had kind of done about six months of planning and, I've been doing it since. I mean, when you see racehorses, they run with chips in their knees and their ankles and they still keep running and trying and stuff. You know, and jump some different jumps than the normal show jumps. And then you mentioned, Thoroughbreds a couple of times, and you mentioned, earlier, uh, before we did the podcast that you have four Thoroughbreds at your stable. I mean, if you have some, uh, teacher that constantly picks at you and puts you down, you're not going to learn and you're not going to accelerate. And then the other thing he taught us is whenever he schooled for a class, we always took him back to his stall and he would urinate back in a stall immediately. Not that all horses would do that, but that, that was his thing. Well, I think we all hope we won’t see more of this, but I think we will. And why do you think it's taken off so much from the upper levels to the, to the grassroots? But by now, of course, many of our subscribers know Ken’s work. But it's a lot of work. We've had a customer, that's a wonderful customer. And as I read up on the Monitor, as I, you know, began to have conversations with you all, I found the message "to injure no man," to be compelling. And Danny learned a long time ago with him that if he went in and picked up a trot and a canter and went to the first jump, he would spook. So you've mentioned you're the co-founder of Danny & Ron's Rescue, which rescues and rehomes more than 900 dogs a year. Danny had a very spooky horse that he was champion at all of indoors and Devon and a top confirmation horse named Arc d’Triomphe. I'll give you an example. Ken: I think stuck is the wrong word. And when they're done with their racing career, everyone needs to remember their career's over. And that’s something that I really strive for in the work that I do. So we're very, very strict on that. Franklin was a 32-year-old rising star in … We’ll be talking to Monitor reporters. There's a lot of challenge to the way that the in-and-outs are set. And then he started calling us and said, “I really want to do a documentary on you all.”. log out. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: "A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. And it's the same thing with dogs. The Forgotten King: Commentary on protest, race, and MLK, The case for uppercase: Commentary on style, dignity, and Black culture, Remembering John Lewis, the voice of generations, Poverty vs. school choice: Commentary on equity in education. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. But however, when we look at that through the context of Black Americans, it’s a different story. And it’s just interesting because I spend a lot of time talking with freelance writers and trying to help them understand that we aren’t just looking to report the news. You know, basically back in the seventies and eighties, all we worried about was did they have navicular? Visit csmonitor.com/holiday for details. And then we would take him right back up and show. Noelle: So it makes me wonder, where do you look for hope? I think we definitely have achieved that goal. And that just kind of escalated from that. A selection of the most viewed stories this week on the Monitor's website. But unless there's someone real famous for breeding, most of those ex-racehorses go to the slaughterhouse. It's available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Ron Danta (right) and Danny Robertshaw started rescuing dogs affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. You know, we save a lot from the slaughterhouse. From the makers of Duolingo, the most popular language-learning app, comes a new podcast that delivers fascinating real-life stories in easy-to-understand Spanish with English narration. Hosted by Martina Castro, co-founder of NPR’s Radio Ambulante. I’m Sandra Oliynyk and this week’s episode is with hunter trainer and co-founder of Danny & Ron’s Rescue Ron Danta. Where were we before George Floyd? And so we have to kind of nip that a little bit. As I said, it's taken years to evolve and years for people to really catch on to what we were asking for an, a Derby horse and like I said, people really nowadays, I mean, there's a lot of owners that will tell their trainer I want a Derby horse. And then the van went on to Barrington Hills Riding Center. And in the winter of ’79, we had one of the worst snowfalls in the Chicago area that ever happened. 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