Fresh Start Thoroughbred Lifecare, Inc.

Fresh Start's Board Chair and President, Karen Graninger, has been riding and caring for horses since the age of 8 at hunter-jumper barns on the East Coast and in Southern California. A graduate of Ithaca College, she pursued a career in the film industry, working for various directors, producers, executives and ultimately for a major multinational media company at their film and television studios in Hollywood. Karen found her off-the-track thoroughbred mare of a lifetime named Glorious Alliance ("Glory"). Karen competed with Glory in Southern California AA jumper shows including the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit, Del Mar Showpark, Oaks Blenheim and in Canada at Calgary's Anderson Ranch. Today, Karen is the “executive assistant” to Glory, who now runs free in a perennially green pasture in Heaven. Glory's Twitter account @GloriousAllianc has nearly 7100 daily followers in racing, eventing, jumping and polo throughout the world.

Karen has spent the last 20 years riding and caring for thoroughbreds, developing her equine massage and acupressure skills while training and coaching her horses in correct ground manners, flat work and jumping to prepare them for a second career as sport horses. Karen first visited Saratoga at age 13 and her interest in horse racing has continued ever since. Her favorite horses include Phar Lap, Java Gold, Curlin, Mine That Bird, Dynaformer, Pioneerof the Nile, California Chrome and Beholder. Karen founded Fresh Start to help ensure that other off-the-track thoroughbred horses in need could enjoy the same high-quality care and training her horses have been fortunate enough to receive during their lifetimes.