There’s been a lot said about unwanted horses in the past few years, but I want to talk about “wanted” horses. TheHorse.com started a service earlier this year to allow owners of Thoroughbreds that needed new homes to place those horses on our Thoroughbred Adoption Services list. These horses are free to good homes, and any negotiations take place between the current owner and the potential owner....
Do you think this headline sounds crazy? Hay and feed prices have gone up. The cost of veterinary care and stabling have gone up. Those of us who keep horses at home are faced with time crunches to just keep up with the horses we have on the property now and keep our day jobs that pay the bills! We hardly have time to ride for all the "caretaking" that goes on. Why in the world would we take...
I LOVE it when TheHorse.com can make a difference. That's why most of us are doing what we do every day. When we started the Thoroughbred Adoption Services it was at the behest of Antony Beck, owner of Gainesway Farm, a large Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky. He was worried that there would be Thoroughbreds that were unwanted in that industry, but would be great for some other use. So we started the...