It is a little known fact that after most racehorses have been retired, they are sold to abattoirs and end up either on the dinner table or in pet food. However, for the past 16 years Laura Stoikos has been saving these beautiful horses from the slaughterhouse and finding them new loving homes. Her organisation Cedar Springs Horses Inc has rehomed over 5000 ex-racehorses, all whom are re-educated and retrained. Needless to say, this is not a cheap exercise, so please go and pay them a visit and either buy some merchandise or give a donation towards this worthy cause.
Saving racehorses from the dinner table
Published February 4, 2008 News 2 CommentsTags: horses, rescue
This is a lovely idea
So many ex racers make wonderful mounts. My last horse was 17hh TB exracer and he was the gentlest, beautiful natured boy around
On another blog,back during Melb Cup Day, I wrote an article about the huge number of horses that are slaughtered in Australia for overseas human consumption.
More info here
http://www.users.bigpond.com/berrime/slaughter.htm
Thanks for sharing that someone is doing something positive about this.