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Horse Rescue/Slaughter Archive

A Close Call

Maggie Moss thought she had found US Gold, a nine-year-old winner of 21 races, a good retirement home. Then: “Only one week after US Gold was sent to Blazing Saddles Farm, Moss was informed that US Gold was to be sent to a Texas slaughterhouse after he failed to sell at an auction in Agawam, Massachusetts.” The horse was rescued and sent to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Lexington facility. (Thoroughbred Times)

Posted in Horse Rescue/Slaughter on October 10, 2004

Change of Plans

The Fund for Horses has scrapped plans to hold an anti-slaughter rally during Breeders’ Cup week, opting instead to have an informational table inside Lone Star Park. “[A]fter several discussions with Lone Star Park, it was decided that the best way to bring as much attention as possible to this issue would be to do something inside the racetrack,” Vivian Farrell, president of The Fund for Horses, told the Thoroughbred Times.

Posted in Horse Rescue/Slaughter on October 8, 2004

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