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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 blog, we catch up with Wazzy after his first Racing to School visit! You can read the previous blogs here. 

We are glad that the weather has finally started to improve. Zara has been really keen to hack Wazzy out and keep practising her rising trot!

He has shoes back on and his feet have benefitted from a break from nail holes over the winter and hardened up a bit.

He has also had a visit from our dentist Dan who brought Zara a real horse skull and taught her all about the anatomy of a horse. She learnt that horses have 36 functional teeth made up of 12 incisors and 24 molars. Males have 4 canines and some horses can have up to 4 wolf teeth but usually have 2. Horses teeth grow at 2 to 5mm a year which is why they need to see a dentist annually as they can get sharp edges.

Wazzy also visited a school in Newcastle as part of the Racing to School programme. As it was his first time his best friend Echo of Lightning aka Nipper (also a retired racehorse who ran 57 times for us) accompanied him. They are very much a bonded pair and enjoyed doing it together, taking confidence from each other. They unloaded in the school playground, and the children took it in turns to give them carrots, polos, apples and lots of cuddles. It was certainly a different experience for them than unloading to go racing!

Racing to School is an educational charity that inspires young minds through free interactive and active outdoor learning experiences giving children the chance to get up close with horses and learn about the racing world.