"After the Finish Line," NBC Covers OTTBs to Slaughter, Canter & Suffolk Downs

More exposure! Yeah!
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#27847733

Hoosier Park Joins "0" Tolerance Tracks!

While this did not make major headlines and hit the wires to be distributed nationally, there was a footnote attached to the ITOBA Hoosier Park Sales Catalogue for their Paddock Sale:
(the information below is directly copied and pasted from the ITOBA.com website)


Perhaps not the most attention getting way to announce this, but nevertheless, BRAVO Hoosier Park for being a class act!

Please note the following Hoosier Park policy: Any trainer or owner stabling at Hoosier Park who directly or indirectly participates in the transport of a horse from Hoosier Park to a slaughter facility or to an auction to sell horses for slaughter will be prohibited from having stalls at the track.

Posted by Holy Racehorse! at 5:10 PM

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Mountaineer Responds to TBs Found in Pa. Killpen

From: QARR [mailto:QARR@NYCAP.RR.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:06 AM
To: Rosemary Williams
Subject: Mountaineer TBs Found @ Sugarcreek

Dear Ms Williams,

We were just in the process of writing you a thank you letter for initiating a new "No Slaughter" policy at Mountaineer Track, when we got this message this morning through our emails,

Click on title above to read alert;
http://horseracingshame.blogspot.com/

and the rescuers are claiming that they spoke with someone at Mountaineer who said they cannot help.

We are hoping that at least you will follow through with sanctions against the owner or owners who bought these horses to SugarCreek Auction directly from your track, whomever they may be.

Please advise.

Thanks

Christine Jubic, Founder,
Friends of Equines FOES of Equine Slaughter
http://www.freewebs.com/friendsofequines
"Because We Care"

* “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds.”--Samuel Adams

* "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress"-F. Douglas

"To Stand and Do Nothing When We Should be Protesting Makes Cowards of Us." - A. Lincoln


MOUNTAINEERS REPLY

Christine,

This horse left our grounds way before the policy of not sending horses to Sugar Creek was implemented. It is my understanding that the horse had a Sugar Creek tag on it and it somehow was found in New Holland. The trainer was put on notice.

Our PR department took the call on this horse and the caller demanded money. Our worker explained there was a process and the caller hung up on her. So there again half truths are circulating.

Rose Mary Williams
Director of Racing
304-387-8334
304-387-8303 fax

OUR REPLY

Thank you Rose Mary,

Of course there is always two sides to a story. I dont see why they would have demanded money of the track as it is the owners who are responsible,...not the track.
You still have a letter of thanks coming from "Friends of Equines" and we will add you as a "Friend" of Racehorses on our websites along with the Suffolk and the Magna Tracks people.

Of course the problem remains of what to do with all these OT horses and who will care for them, but we have an answer for that! We hope you will support our

"Tax Break Money to Go to the Horses" petition, and you can read more about it here;
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-petition-2-amend-the-farm-bill

Thanks for Caring!

Christine A Jubic. Founder,
Friends of Equines FOES of Equine Slaughter
http://www.freewebs.com/friendsofequines
"Because We Care"

MOUNTAINEERS REPLY

There will be a release out later this week. We just set Mountaineer up with the Canter program. They appear to be very well intended.

Rose Mary Williams
Director of Racing
304-387-8334
304-387-8303 fax

OUR REPLY

Thank you Rose Mary,

Yes Canter is a good outfit. There will be more help for you as we go aong, until we can get the industry to free up some real money for rehoming and retirement......

Also, we thought you might like to know as you are probably getting them also, we have received a few "hate mails" and "Letters of Concern" from owners and breeders worried about the ban,....and have posted one of the more "polite ones" here;

http://horseracingshame.blogspot.com/2008/11/tb-owner-in-uproar-over-mountaineer.html

We hope you wont let the turkeys get you down. You are doing the right thing, and we are encouraging our betting friends to only play at the No-Kill Tracks. We anti-slaughter folk ARE winning this war but we need the Industry to help us do it.

Thank you for taking the horses side!

CJ

Mountaineer TB Found in Pa. Killpen & Mountaineer Wont Help?

5 TB'S at Sugarcreek needs help

Mon Nov 3, 2008 11:49 am (PST)

They had a team of people at New Holland this
morning to recover 5 TB'S from a ZERO slaughter tolerance track. They
recovered all 5 and they are safe and headed to a TRF facility.

During the process they found 5 more TB'S in the direct to kill pen.
2 are injured. One of the injured horses just raced at Mountaineer on
October 24th. They have contacted Mountaineer and they are
unwilling/unable to help.

-End of Report

I am wondering who they talked to at Mountaineer and who was the owner who sent them to SugarCreek? The LEAST we can hope for here is that Mountaineer will keep its word and prosecute the offenders.

Mountaineer to Go "No-Kill?" Wow!

We ARE making GREAT strides in the "No-Kill" Stable Revolution! Mountaineer going "No-Kill" should make a BIG dent in the number of TBs Showing up at SugarCreek Cruelty Auction House!

MOUNTAINEER MAY BAN TRAINERS SELLING AT SLAUGHTER AUCTION
By Ray Paulick

Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort in West Virginia has notified horsemen they will lose stalls and may be excluded from the track if any horses racing at Mountaineer end up at the Sugarcreek auction in Ohio, the Amish-run livestock sale where many horses end up in the hands of killer buyers and headed for slaughter facilities in Canada or Mexico.

The new policy appeared on aTuesday overnight entry sheetat the Chester, W. Va., track. Suffolk Downs racetrack in East Boston, Mass., was a pioneer in instituting a policy to prevent horses going to slaughter auctions, and Magna Entertainment recently adopted a company-wide policy at its tracks.

Mountaineer also is instituting a ban on toe grabs in excess of two millimeters in height on the front feet. That policy takes effect Dec. 1.

Thanks to the Paulick Report reader who brought this new policy at Mountaineer to our attention.

Vicki
vicki tobin|http://www.vickitobin.com
The only way to stop excessive breeding is to take away the financial incentive that slaughter
provides and then to back rigid enforcement of existing cruelty laws. We cannot wish our way
out of abuse and neglect any more than we can slaughter our way out of it.
~ John Holland

A Workable Solution that Would END 95% of Horse Slaughter in the USA!!

Greetings Fellow Equine Lovers, Protectors, Advocates & Rescuers!

Here is an idea we think is a very good one and will REALLY help the
horses.

Please read it over and see what you think, and if you agree that
this is a good idea, please sign and pass it around.

Click on title above to see the plan;
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-petition-2-amend-the-farm-bill

Thanks!

CJ/MK, Founder,
"Friends of Equines FOES of Equine Slaughter"
http://www.freewebs.com/friendsofequines
"Because WE Care"


"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds."
--Samuel Adams

* "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress.If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress"
-F. Douglas

Petition to Amend the Farm Bill and Economic Stimulus Act

In view of all the "so-called un-wanted" horses being produced and the industries opposition to our anti-horse slaughter efforts, we propose amendments to the Farm Bill & the Economic Stimulus Act that would; with-hold tax-break monies from the BIG TOP 10 breeders/producers of horses and to those who promote their breeding, the various "breed specific" Registries, the Jockey Club & the AQHA, said monies to be put towards a National Registered American Equine Atheletes Rehoming & Retirement Fund, and to remove breeding incentives to be replaced with rewards for responsible breeding and/or breeding DIS-incentives;

Click title above to see petition;
http://horseracingshame.blogspot.com/2008/10/proposal-to-amend-farm-bill-and-equine.html

Kentucky Racing Commissions' Task "Farce?"

Click on title above for an interesting read from the Paulick Report;
http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/kentucky-racing-an-integrity-task-farce/

The New Face of "Friends"

Announcing some changes to the face of our old website, updated to reflect what we are hearing is the death of HR 6598, and offering some alternative plans & solutions.....

Click title above to go there,.....