Operations such as TRF are set up and claim their mission is to save horses. TRF specifically set up to save Thoroughbreds. When it appeals for donations that is their pitch. No admission that they go through positively weird gyrations to pick one horse over another. I accuse them of catering to “name” horses, ideally one that reached the heights and ended up as a $3,000 Claimer. That story can be milked for more donations.

I have a strong suspicion Erin may be employed by TRF. If so, as with all other paid employees, THEY are living off the plight of the horses. Like so many other not-for-profits, an examination of salaries paid the executives could shock the donors.

In conclusion: I do not run a common pound. I do not seek donations. I did step up and do what TRF is supposed to do.

Enough.

Nearly 40,000 T-breds foaled every year? Stunningly foolish.

And even more Quarter Horses than that? Insanity.

And every other breed spitting out horses as fast as they can?

And goofball backyard breeders trying to make a quick buck?

That’s the primary issue that has to be addressed & the big breeders & the various breed associations just do not want to hear that, let alone deal with it.

To address today’s homeless & potentially homeless horses, more sanctuaries & rescues have to be developed - & here’s another one nobody wants to hear - funded. Your government certainly isn’t gonna help - they throw money at wars & at the rich.

So maybe there needs to be a massive public awareness program. If Barack Obama can raise $100 million via small donations, it seems that the nation’s horses - America’s Herd - ought to be able to do the same.

Slaughter is the simple way. The easy way. The lazy way.

The hard way? The right way? Cut back on breeding & generate funding for living horses.

But this is America 2009, so it’ll probably be the easy way.

Too bad. Too bad for the horses & too bad for the nation’s moral fiber.

Where is your hundreds of million-dollars donation that would be necessary to make this happen so as to justify such criticism? What obligates any 501c3 to clean up racing’s messes once they’re not profitable, other than their own ethical inability to refuse to stand by and watch suffering, an ethic so sadly absent from the people who are truly responsible to these animals - their owners?

A veterinarian, with whom I am acquainted, was asked by grooms at the Thoroughbred Center to find a home for a nice horse. It had been injured, could not race again and scheduled for euthanasia. The grooms literally loved this horse. They did not want it put down. The vet tried to help by contacting TRF.

It was hard to believe anyone could be given such a run-around. There was this, that and the other reason why they were reluctant to take the horse. As inducement, the vet offered to donate professional services to TRF for several hours a week. Still got nowhere.

D-Day for the horse arrived. The vet asked me to give the horse a temporary home while a search for suitable retirement place continued. That was more than two years ago.

The horse is still here. I have several of my homebreds retired here. I don’t need to take on outsiders. But, what else could I do?

Thanks for your humane attitude toward all horse — TRF. !!!

Now when are horses runing loose breeding on there own. The glut can be controlled by making the very industry that is profiting promoting breeding for papers. The Industry should be held responsible. The industry such as the AQHA ,APHA, AHA and other over breeder associations should be setting fees for all breeders these fees can go to rescues which are NON profit and are NOT getting rich as these problem makers are like wall street investors. Rescues are the frontline of protection for horses.

For example if you have a car and find out you need new tires you go to BFG or Firestone and buy four new tires do you keep your old tire’s or turn them over for discharged. Most of the time many will turn them over to the business to discard them. Then the business charges you a discard fee of $ 3.00 per tire. In return these business will re-sell them to a used tire business for a few more dollars making a profit. Then the used tire business re-sells you used tires for a cheap price. Then the last trip for tires are reused again in other ways. Never burned or dump in landfills.

The advantage for horses is there are Rescues that are here to help. Lets help our rescues by supporting them. Lets make these big organizations such as the Over Breeder association responsible Lets start charging these breeders Fees since there so irresponsible to own a horse.

Finally lets fine and jail criminals that support these crimes on animals NOT REWARD them for being irresponsible. To see the profits these irresponsible people make Over breeding visit. http://www.SaveDaHorses.org want to see who profits abusing and neglecting horses visit. http://www.Sharkonline.org

And good for Caroline Betts - she really skewered Tuck Miller, who apparently can’t reason from A to B if he thinks the horses somehow managed to “cause” the “glut.” Industry horses don’t live like alley cats. They’ve caused nothing.