π₯π₯π₯π¨π¨π¨πππππ Poster 10-25-26. So many Thoroughbreds need help and there are no industry funds to help them. How can that be acceptable? It isn't. Contact the Jockey Club, Breeders Cup, National HBPA, NTRA, TOBA and many other industry entities and ask them why they do nothing to help Thoroughbreds in the auction/slaughter pipeline. Ask them why they think it is ok for these horses to linger at feedlots. Ask them why they promote breeding more horses but have not taken care of this issue first of not providing any Emergency Fund or programs for TB's that end up in the lower end/auction slaughter pipeline.β
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πβπ Update! We have received an Equus Grant which will help with the rest of Mercy's Vet and Burial costs so we should have everything covered in addition to the $1505 that we have raised. Mercy's Vet bill came to $1473.17. Her purchase price from the Lot was $750, transport to Vet Clinic $80 and we are still waiting on the burial fee. Thank you so much to everyone that shared, cared and donated to help us help Mercy and the Equus Foundation.
We wish Mercy could have lived many more years but her condition and the infection was too much for her to overcome. She is finally at peace.
No more suffering. ππ―
π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $1425 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $1275 more to help with her Veterinary and burial costs. Please consider a donation. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $1425 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $1275 more to help with her Veterinary and burial costs. Please consider a donation. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
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Update! Run free sweet girl !
We picked Mercy up from the Lot today and she was having trouble breathing. She was taken to the Vet Clinic for diagnostic tests, bloodwork, ultrasound, scope, Xrays. This poor mare had such a horrific sinus infection that it went in to the bone. The vet flushed her sinuses and the pus and matter was so horrendous and still could not remove it all. Her nasal passages were narrowed. The vet said they have never seen one this bad.
Mercy's left hind hock injury also had infection in the bone. Mercy was at least 200 lbs underweight as she only weighed 900 lbs. We believe she was in her mid twenties. The vet felt with her age and the severe and long term infection that she would not be able to overcome it. We made the decision to let Mercy cross over the Rainbow Bridge this evening. π No one can hurt her anymore. Her life mattered.
We don't have the total amount of her Vet bill but it will be quite large so we are going to keep our PayPal Donation link up for anyone that would like to help us with those costs. Our initial fundraiser for Mercy raised $1270 but we still need to raise the remaining $1430 to help toward her veterinary costs.
Thank you to everyone who shared, cared and donated so far to help us help Mercy. We only wish it could have been a different outcome. Thank you so much to S Shain for doing the transport to the vet clinic and being with Mercy until the end. β€οΈ
This mare died due to severe neglect and abuse over the years. Mercy has been suffering for a long time. Surely God will deal with those that do this to animals.
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π€¦ββοΈππIt does not appear that the Jockey Club has learned anything from their data. To keep speaking about increasing the foal crop and the ridiculous Mare Incentive program tells us that they have not taken the issue of Thoroughbred broodmares ending up in the lower end auction/slaughter pipeline serious or that they are going to do anything about it.
Folks, speak up for the mares, speak up for the Bizzar Browns, Mercy, Keepthename and so many other mares that lost their lives because they were thrown away like trash.
The Thoroughbred industry is a multi-billion dollar business and there is no excuse that the mares and all Thoroughbreds have not been protected better and the Holocaust continues to happen.
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Update! Run free sweet girl !
We picked Mercy up from the Lot today and she was having trouble breathing. She was taken to the Vet Clinic for diagnostic tests, bloodwork, ultrasound, scope, Xrays. This poor mare had such a horrific sinus infection that it went in to the bone. The vet flushed her sinuses and the pus and matter was so horrendous and still could not remove it all. Her nasal passages were narrowed. The vet said they have never seen one this bad.
Mercy's left hind hock injury also had infection in the bone. Mercy was at least 200 lbs underweight as she only weighed 900 lbs. We believe she was in her mid twenties. The vet felt with her age and the severe and long term infection that she would not be able to overcome it. We made the decision to let Mercy cross over the Rainbow Bridge this evening. π No one can hurt her anymore. Her life mattered.
We don't have the total amount of her Vet bill but it will be quite large so we are going to keep our PayPal Donation link up for anyone that would like to help us with those costs. Our initial fundraiser for Mercy raised $1270 but we still need to raise the remaining $1430 to help toward her veterinary costs.
Thank you to everyone who shared, cared and donated so far to help us help Mercy. We only wish it could have been a different outcome. Thank you so much to S Shain for doing the transport to the vet clinic and being with Mercy until the end. β€οΈ
This mare died due to severe neglect and abuse over the years. Mercy has been suffering for a long time. Surely God will deal with those that do this to animals.
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π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $1240 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $1460 more to reach goal. Please consider a donation to help us help her. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $1240 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $1460 more to reach goal. Please consider a donation to help us help her. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $315.00 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $2385 more to reach goal. Please consider a donation to help us help her. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
π₯π¨ππ Update! We have raised $315.00 so far for Mercy. We still need to raise $2385 more to reach goal. Please consider a donation to help us help her. Our PayPal Donation link is: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Thank you.
π¨π₯ππ₯π¨ππ₯π¨ππ¨π₯ππ Very Urgent Emergency Fundraiser. We were hoping someone would have stepped up for this poor senior unidentified tattooed mare but so far no one has and her deadline is this Friday. She is in bad shape and also has a severe left hind hock injury and is very lame. We want to get her off of the lot and to quarantine and seen by a veterinarian ASAP. We are naming her Mercy for now. She is no longer just Tag 478.
We have secured a retirement place for her if she can pull through. She will be going to beautiful Mereworth Farm, in KY. We are not sure what her long total expenses will be yet but for now we need to raise at least $2700 to secure her, transport to quarantine, quarantine and initial Vet exam and care. We may have to do a subsequent fundraiser for her for additional vet costs and transportation to KY.
Right now we have to concentrate on the task at hand. Please consider a donation to help us help Mercy. Our PayPal Donation link is : paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Please share.
Thank you.
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π¨π₯ππ₯π¨ππ₯π¨ππ¨π₯ππ Very Urgent Emergency Fundraiser. We were hoping someone would have stepped up for this poor senior unidentified tattooed mare but so far no one has and her deadline is this Friday. She is in bad shape and also has a severe left hind hock injury and is very lame. We want to get her off of the lot and to quarantine and seen by a veterinarian ASAP. We are naming her Mercy for now. She is no longer just Tag 478.
We have secured a retirement place for her if she can pull through. She will be going to beautiful Mereworth Farm, in KY. We are not sure what her long total expenses will be yet but for now we need to raise at least $2700 to secure her, transport to quarantine, quarantine and initial Vet exam and care. We may have to do a subsequent fundraiser for her for additional vet costs and transportation to KY.
Right now we have to concentrate on the task at hand. Please consider a donation to help us help Mercy. Our PayPal Donation link is : paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buβ¦
Please share.
Thank you.
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This poor unidentified tattooed mare Tag 478 has been at the Stroud, OK lot for quite awhile now. She is in very rough shape and has a serious cut/injury to her left hock. π¨She is emaciated and needs some serious Vet care and TLC ASAP. What reputable organization can step up to help her? Look at her eyes! Please contact us.
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π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯ππππππππ Poster 10-18-26. Sadly, Thoroughbreds just keep coming in to the lots. Hard Luck Henry and Drunk N Disorderly at the CO lot are running out of time. Tag 478 at the Stroud lot, unidentified tattooed mare is very lame and has a severe cut and injury to her left hock, she needs out and vet care ASAP. Many more need help and several in California. See contact information on poster for the California horses.
The Jockey Club and industry continue to sit on their hands while Thoroughbreds keep ending up at feedlots with no industry help. It is a disgrace that this keeps happening in a multi billion dollar business. Speak up on the horses behalf. Contact the Jockey Club and demand change and action. These horses served the industry and they deserve to be safe and protected.
Who is going to help them? They cannot wait for legislation to save them.
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β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήπ¦·π¦·π Update! Wild n' Wild and Red's Dividend are at the end of their quarantine. Last week their teeth were floated and they were vaccinated and nasal swabbed. Red was also checked for pregnancy and she is not in foal thank goodness. This week their feet will be trimmed. Soon they will be headed to @Mereworth_Farm Farm in KY where they will be retired and forever safe.
Both were rescued from the Stroud, OK lot. Neither deserved to be there, both deserve to live and be taken care of. Their lives matter! β€οΈβ€οΈ
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The Thoroughbred industry needs to provide the funds and infrastructure to provide a safe retirement for broodmares when their breeding careers are over. Countless thoroughbred mares are ending up at cheap auctions and then feedlots/kill pen. Our organization has rescued many of them. Sadly one thoroughbred mare died this past week at a feedlot. It is a disgrace and cruel what is happening to these mares. Stop wanting to increase the foal crop until you take care of the first problem. The long term welfare and safety of the mares that give life to the industry must be the priority first and not creating more horses that may meet the same fate.
β€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήπππ Update! Brilliant Missy and N P Burns arrived safely at quarantine last evening. Both are thin. They are both munching away on hay and drank quite a bit of water. Both are sweet girls although Burnie is more standoffish. Per the lot Burnie supposedly had a foal weaned from her recently which from what we can tell it would not have been a TB foal. Regardless, think of the trauma, having your foal separated from you then ending up at a cheap auction and then a feedlot. We all must demand change and protection for broodmares because it is flat out wrong what is happening to them and continues to happen.
π’π Bizzar Brown lost her life because some uncaring person or persons, bred her, dumped her and then she ends up at an auction then a feedlot aborting her foal. The mindset of so many breeders that these mares are just disposable has got to change. These mares lives matter and if you do not think so then you have no business owning or breeding horses. Period.
We have a good idea for a program for mares to help circumvent them ending up in the auction/slaughter pipeline but the Thoroughbred industry must invest the funds and in the infrastructure to accomplish it. So many positive things could be done to protect the horses better but where is the Jockey Club? Where is the industry?
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βΊοΈβ€π Update! Brilliant Missy (Tattoo R13637),
N P Burns (Tattoo Q17635) and Partyinslowmotion (O05505) have been picked up from the TX lot about an hour ago. Look at them, how innocent they are. All served the Thoroughbred industry and none of them deserved to end up at a feedlot. Bizzar Brown should have been on this trailer too but she sadly died at the feedlot π N P Burns has taken her place so in BB's honor at least we could save another mare's life.
Missy and Burns will be going to STES for quarantine and then Missy will go to Happened By Chance and Burns will remain at STES. Partyinmotion was placed by a private party and we have helped to arrange her transport to Hunt, TX.
π₯Folks, things have got to change for these Thoroughbred mares that served the industry. They deserve to be safe after their breeding careers have ended. Stand up for them.
Contact the Jockey Club, Breeders Cup and whoever else you know in the industry to demand protection for them. They want to promote breeding, then take care of the very creature that is giving life to the industry. No more delay, no more excuses. Enough is Enough.
And remember Bizzar Brown, Keepthename, Be Respectful and many more innocent Thoroughbred mares that lost their lives because they were thrust in to the auction/slaughter pipeline.
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πππππ’π’π’ We were notified late today that Bizzar Brown aka BB passed away at the lot. To say that we are absolutely heartbroken is an understatement. We could see BB was in very poor shape when she first arrived at the lot and she had lost a foal. After bailing her we had the lot put her in a separate area with hay and water.The lot said she had been eating and drinking. We have no more information than that.
It has been a difficult week in more ways than one and trying to get transport, then we rescued Brilliant Missy at the same lot so had to fundraise for Missy. We finally secured transport today. In the meantime, a new Thoroughbred mare came in to the same lot today named N P Burns. We are rescuing NP Burns to now take BB's place.
Although, we do not defend feedlots, we do know that many of the horses they buy at lower end auctions are already in horrific shape because of previous abuse and neglect. We don't know if we could have gotten BB transported to quarantine sooner if she would have survived long term or not and sadly we will never know now.
We do know that we do not want BB to have died in vain. That is why we are posting her deceased picture. The best thing you can do to honor her and to help other Thoroughbred mares that keep ending up at lower end auctions/feedlots is to contact the Jockey Club and state breeding associations in your state and demand that they provide the funding and create the infrastructure that is needed to protect these mares that served the industry. And to hold people in the industry accountable when they throw these mares to the wolves. We do not know who is at fault for BB ending up in the condition she did and in foal, we do not think it was a TB foal but mostly likely a crossbred. Regardless, she did everything that was asked of her and she sure as the hell did not deserve to die at a feedlot. She had the kindest eyes. It absolutely breaks our hearts that she died alone at a feedlot. ππ’π And for the person or persons that abused and neglected her and then dumped her and her baby, may there be a special place in hell for people like you. π₯
From the winner's circle to the breeding shed to the cheap auction and then the feedlot. That is the life of countless Thoroughbred mares. Change is needed NOW Jockey Club and industry. No more delays, no more excuses. Shame on you Jockey Club and industry.
Stand up for BB and all broodmares! π΄π΄π΄π΄π΄
So many people and system failed you BB but no one can hurt you anymore. Run free sweet girl. You mattered. πβ€οΈπ
Thank you.
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