2 CANTER chapters net $17,500 in gifts, grants
Two chapters of the Thoroughbred charity organization CANTER recently accepted generous donations to help in their ongoing efforts to list, advertise, re-train and re-home Thoroughbred ex-racehorses. The ASPCA this month granted $7,500 to CANTER California to assist in the charity’s efforts to rehabilitate and retrain retired racehorses, as well as to defray costs of veterinary care, feed and boarding expenses for the horses, according to a press release. And a few states away, CANTER Colorado was awarded 10,000 by the Colorado Horse Racing Association and Arapahoe Park to assist in creation of the new CANTER chapter, which officially launched an […]
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Starved, rescued and raced, Annie powers on
At just a year old, she had already seen herd mates die of starvation, while others around her wallowed sick and starving in filth. The smallest among a massive herd of 177 Thoroughbreds at an upstate New York farm, she struggled daily to get by on thin rations, yet still survive. But Annie didn’t cower. Not when the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA raided the farm in the Hudson River Valley where she and more than 170 other horses like her languished; not when she was taken away to live with new owners; and not when, against all probability, she went on […]
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Henry, the roadside rescue, is picture perfect
Happy Labor Day from Off-TrackThoroughbreds.com. We hope the long weekend offers everyone a chance to appreciate the good things in life, little or great. In lieu of a story this morning, please enjoy a new photo of Barkinspider, a roadside rescue colt in Louisiana who we reported on last month, and who is now a children’s hunter/jumper pony named Henry. First rescued by the Lafayette Parish Animal Control last September, he was adopted by Anne Marie P. Muller, an attorney and avid equestrian. In an […]
