The Foundation’s keenest mission is fostering health of the horse and helping support the future veterinarians who will oversee their well-being. These students go through intense, lengthy, and expensive training that requires drive and commitment.
We award scholarships and fellowships at the University of California, College of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, and Western University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Medicine in Pomona. Our trustees work with Gregory Ferraro DVM and trustee Jeff Blea DVM to meet, interview, and select scholarship recipients. The candidates leave us inspired, hopeful, and filled with admiration for these extraordinary young people who look forward to a career of service to horses.
Dr. Carrie Fino, to whom we awarded the Louis R. Rowan Fellowship at UC Davis in 2009, joined the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine faculty in 2014. In 2017 she became the Gregory L. Ferraro Endowed Director of the UC Davis Center for Equine Health.
Dr. Fino’s background and training include completing her DVM and an internship in large animal medicine and surgery at the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine, and a residency in large animal internal medicine at UC Davis. Board certified in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, she completed a PhD in comparative pathology at UC Davis and post-doctoral training in comparative genomics at the University of Minnesota. She maintains a research laboratory and recently developed the first available genetic test in Thoroughbred horses.
We feared the toll of the pandemic would damage the Foundation’s fundraising efforts to support students such as Dr. Fino. Instead, longtime loyal supporters and newly engaged friends have given more generously than ever. We thank every one of our individual donors as well as the Southern California Equine Foundation, the Dolly Green Research Foundation, Santa Anita Park, and Golden Gate Fields. Your generosity and belief in our mission enable us to continue our valuable work.
Ada Gates Patton
President
California Thoroughbred Foundation