Shy mare and owner connect up, what a team!
For two hours, Native Kitten pranced around like the proverbial cat on a hot tin roof. Head flung high in the air, the shy mare refused to approach her new owner, no matter how she was coaxed. She would draw near, and then prance away. But her new owner would not rush her. It would be important to take as long as the flighty mare needed for her to start to trust people; after all, it hadn’t been that long since the gorgeous, 15.1-hand ex-racerhad been rescued from the slaughter pipeline. So Allison Gaereminck waited. This was her first horse, […]
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New Vocations welcomes Chromospere
Chromospere, one of six horses spared last month from a trip to the New Holland livestock auction, which could have put him in the slaughter pipeline, has been accepted into the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program. The flashy chestnut arrived Sept. 9 at the Ohio facility in good weight, and spirits, says Amy Allison, horse caretaker and trainer at New Vocations. “His condition was actually very good,” Allison says. “He was bright eyed and very alert and curious.” Clean-legged and possessing a personality so friendly he was assigned a paddock buddy right away, Chromospere is on the fast track to […]
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Hawser exits New Holland trailer for good life
Sonja Meadows reached carefully through the slats of the dingy, white horse van and gently grabbed the lip of the frightened-looking Thoroughbred. Working quickly, she flipped the chestnut’s lip, revealing the bright pink flesh underneath, and a tattoo identifying him as a racehorse. Snapping a picture of the partial serial number, 1-2-8-2, Meadows worked quickly from the parking lot of the New Holland Auction, a livestock facility where horses are routinely sold into the slaughter pipeline. The seconds ticked as she placed an urgent call to California-based Thoroughbred advocate Deborah Jones. Standing in the parking lot near the trailer that […]
