SPCA raid spurs quest to find, get gray gelding
A bolt of dread shot up her spine. Racing through the news story, fear clutched her heart as Elisabeth Leahy’s thoughts turned to the dappled gray horse who belonged to Ernie Paragallo; a man who would eventually be imprisoned on 33 counts of animal cruelty. With growing horror, she read how Paragallo had been arrested during an SPCA sweep of his New York farm. That approximately100 sickly horses were removed by the truckloads in the raid, none of course mentioned by name, as she was left only to wonder, and with a sinking feeling in her heart; was he okay? […]
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‘I’ll get you out’ she whispered, saving 9 horses
Everywhere she looked was sick horses. Noses running, they coughed as they stood shivering in the slop left behind by a Canadian winter rainstorm. The gray, who raced under the name E.Z. Irish, stood gingerly on a broken pelvis, and Somarvelous, who’d previously earned more than $200,000 on the track, was huddled among them; a total of nine forgotten Thoroughbreds, some still wearing their racing plates, deposited on an Ontario feed lot last December, awaiting their final ride to slaughter. Not knowing how she could rescue as many as that, Mindy Lovell whispered to the horses, “I’ll get you out […]
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Exceller Fund lures members with shares in filly
The Exceller Fund wants its supporters to have some skin in the game. So this week, in a unique bid to boost its membership, the Thoroughbred retirement foundation raffled off a 10-percent honorary share in the race filly Great Cross, the daughter of Kitten’s Joy. New and longtime members were entered in a raffle to own a part of a racehorse for six months, and get a taste for all the perks that go along with it, says Nicole Smith, executive director of volunteers for the Exceller Fund. And late afternoon yesterday, Smith announced that member Holly Walker had won […]
