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Post by SpringWolf on Oct 28, 2009 14:54:48 GMT -5
my little family includes my 16 yr old son, my hubby and 4 horses that i personally own (2 OTTB mares, arabian gelding, and a trakehner gelding). We are just getting into breeding TB race horses. also have a great pyrenees, a chihuahua and talking starling (rasied him since he was 2 days old, he's 3 now) we take in a few boarder and currently have 3 horses boarding with us. lately I have been helping with OTTB's who are slaughterbound, I sold one to my mom, who boards with us. And just recently took in another on Oct 17, who was scheduled to ship for meat on Oct 20th. She had a sad story. She had earned around $145,000 on the track and then used as a broodmare, she had only one foal to date. The foal's sire's stud fee is $7000. That foal was a yearling this year, and was at the Woodbine Open Auction a little while back, we had attended. That foal sold for $3,200. They decided she was worthless and dumped her. She is now safe at our place, and my son intends to re-train her as his backup show horse, as she is gorgeous. we are building a new bigger paddock and hoping to take in a few more next year and re-train and find homes for. we are not a registered rescue, I just want to do what i can. i have also vowed that if any of our horses that we breed needs help, we will be there to do so.
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Post by Kirsten on Oct 30, 2009 20:27:34 GMT -5
Hi there!! Thanks for the intro! And thank you for helping these horses!! Where abouts are you located?
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