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Horse Rescue/Slaughter Archive

Challenge Accepted

“Virginia breeder Donna Hayes has taken up the challenge posed to all breeders by Marylou Whitney and has pledged to pay for the return of horses she has bred that might face a grim end in a slaughterhouse. ‘That’s just what you have to do if you want to sleep anymore,’ Hayes said on Thursday. ‘We’ll find [the horses] another job. The killers will almost be out of business if everyone does this.'” (Thoroughbred Times)

Posted in Horse Rescue/Slaughter on October 5, 2004

Half-Brother of Birdstone

Rescued from an auction “kill pen” in Pennsylvania. But what about the horses in the pen that weren’t bred by Marylou Whitney? (Thoroughbred Times)

Posted in Horse Rescue/Slaughter on September 16, 2004

One Lucky Horse

The Danzig-sired colt Media Empire was saved from the abattoir by Kelly and Tracy Young of York, Pennsylvania, when he was purchased for $225 at auction, but thousands of horses each year aren’t so lucky, ending their lives in slaughterhouses. (LA Times)

Posted in Horse Rescue/Slaughter on August 29, 2004