Sponsor a Horse

A Perfect Gift for Yourself or Somebody Special

If you love Thoroughbreds, sponsoring one of our permanent residents is a fun way to get up close and personal with a TRF horse without ever setting foot on a farm.   Sponsorships are also a unique and meaningful gift for those hard-to-shop-for people in your life!

Click here to meet some of the former racehorses who are available for sponsorship.  Please let us know if you have a special request.

Here’s the story of Renaissance Bob and his sponsors, Bill and Sue Finley:

The New York-bred was once an allowance winner at Saratoga, but the nagging injuries that can affect a horse when they get older caught up to him.  Eventually, he was unable to compete at even the lowest class level at Penn National.  From there, economically worthless as a racehorse, he wound up at an auction where he was purchased by a buyer whose intention was to send him to the slaughterhouse.

But, Bill Finley, while working on a story about horse slaughter for the New York Daily News, stepped in and convinced the slaughterhouse middleman to sell him Renaissance Bob for a few hundred dollars.  Inches away from death, Renaissance Bob was saved.  The Finleys turned him over to the TRF, and Renaissance Bob now enjoying his retirement at a TRF farm in New York, where the Finleys continue to sponsor him each year.

“Now, for just $5 a day—the price of our morning coffee—we “own” our racehorse,” Sue Finley said. “He’s near enough that we can visit him, and we do.  Watching him roam his paddock in safety, a world away from the fate that awaited him… well, it’s hard to imagine there is any way our few dollars a day could have been better spent.”

You, too, can feel a special relationship with a retiree.  We offer sponsorships at several levels:

Gold ($1,000 or more) sponsors receive:
-  Framed photograph
-  Complete race record
-  Detailed 5-Generation Pedigree
-  Leather keychain with a brass plate engraved with horse’s registered name
-  Hardcover copy of Saving Leslie Jones, by Jon Kral and Dave Joseph 

Silver ($500 to $999) sponsors receive:
-  Framed photograph
-  Complete race record
-  Detailed 5-Generation Pedigree
-  Leather keychain with a brass plate engraved with horse’s registered name

Bronze ($250 to $499) sponsors receive:
-  Framed photograph
-  Complete race record
-  Detailed 5-Generation Pedigree

SPECIAL!  Gift Of Love ($100) sponsors receive:
-  Framed photograph

If the sponsorship is a gift, we will mail the recipient the above materials along with a personalized greeting card.

Click here for our secure online Sponsorship Registration Page
or contact us directly:

Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation
P.O. Box 3387
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: (518) 226-0028
info@trfinc.org

Remember, the TRF is a registered 503(c) nonprofit organization and your gift is fully tax deductible.  Sponsorship donations go into our general fund, helping support the overall TRF efforts to save Thoroughbred horses, no longer able to compete on the racetrack, from possible neglect, abuse, and slaughter.