Angel Acres bake sale raises $3K for hay fund
With muffin tins and secret recipes, Jo Deibel of Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue and supporters cooked up a hay fundraiser last month filled with pumpkins and spice and everything nice. During a marathon bake-a-thon that ended Nov. 20, Deibel joined Patty Winkler, Clare Schmidt and Fran Burns in a professional kitchen to bake nonstop, and fundraise for the 20 horses housed at her certified nonprofit charity. At the end of a 12-hour stint in aprons, the ladies highfived each other with hands reddened from constant scrubbing: They’d raised $3,400 to pay for hay and feed. “We baked literally all […]
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Davy Jones fans return love, support his horses
Long before Davy Jones became a Monkee, he was a horseman. It was in the company of racehorses that he sought to make a career as a young jockey. Until, that is, his trainer lovingly kicked him out of the racing stables for his own good, with the admonishment that he shouldn’t have to be picking up after horses his whole life, says Jones’ daughter Jessica Cramer Jones. “My father was a broken boy when he first discovered horses,” Jones says in a telephone interview with Off-TrackThoroughbreds.com. “He was 12 when he lost his mother, and he turned to horses […]
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Proposal would brand horses treated with Bute
Texas-based T’bred advocate Donna Keen recently announced an innovative idea to save horses from the slaughter pipeline, long before they’re endangered. The CEO of Remember Me Rescue is proposing to both industry leaders and influencers alike, that identification be painlessly branded on the left, front shoulder of any horse treated with one of 17 medications routinely given to horses, which are that are banned in meat consumed by humans. Keen argues that branding, which was an idea put forth by California-based Thoroughbred advocate Deb Jones in a conversation between the two, would prove unequivocally that a horse has been treated […]
