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Motawaazy or ‘Wazzy’ as he is known at home, is Catterick's Equine Ambassador as part of the ROR Horses for Courses programme. Motawaazy ran 11 times at Catterick between June 2021 and May 2024, winning on 4 occasions. He has now retired from racing and has moved home with his owner Victoria Greetham and her daughter Zara. We will be checking in regularly with him to see how he is enjoying life after racing!

In this next blog, we learn how Wazzy has gone barefoot to help improve his hoof health and has been helping Zara to build snowmen! You can read the previous blogs here.

Wazzy has had most of the winter off winding down from racing and just getting used to "being a horse". He had his shoes removed in December and has been turned out in a big field every day with his best friend Nipper. 

The temperatures have been as low as -15 here in Yorkshire and the ground has been very icy. Zara has been mucking out and grooming him for short periods but then wants to go back inside the house to get warm (who can blame her!), but Wazzy did help Zara build a snowman when her school was closed!

We have been paying attention to his front feet as he has had feet problems in the past. He has been on a new hoof supplement along with a daily hoof dressing which our farrier recommended, this seems to have really helped. The farrier thinks that a few months barefoot will do him good, without having nail holes weakening the hoof wall.

As ever, he has never stopped eating and has retained his big tummy very well throughout winter. He is a good doer for a thoroughbred.

Last week at school Zara had a pet "show and tell" so of course she used Wazzy and proudly told her friends all about him. I was told that she asked her teacher if she could bring him into the playground in person but was not allowed!

The plan is to start him in Spring with some basic schooling and hacking and see how we go.