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Impacto
and Banking On It
When
Jeannette Fletcher’s 18-year-old appaloosa
Matt died, she decided she wanted another horse.
It would be nice to have another pet and nicer still
to give a horse a home, her way of playing a small
but meaningful part in the process that stems the
flow from the racetrack to the slaughterhouse. She
asked for nothing in return when she went to the
TRF’s Out 2 Pasture facility in Missouri and
adopted Impacto, a horse whose physical problems
made him unsuitable to become a riding or pleasure
horse. But perhaps she got something anyway, the
satisfaction that she helped make a difference.
“On our first
visit to Out 2 Pasture, my husband Harold and
I were amazed that so many wonderful horses are
thrown away with no more regard than people would
give to throwing away a candy wrapper,”
she said. “…When you come from having
a horse as long as long as we had Matt and doing
everything you can to save them, there is no way
to understand the other side who does everything
in their power to destroy them.”
Fletcher was so enamored by
Impacto she changed his name to “Treasure,”
as in, “One man’s trash is another
man’s treasure.” Once Treasure got
settled in, Fletcher decided he needed a friend.
The Fletchers returned to Out 2 Pasture and adopted
a second horse, Banking On It. She was chosen
because she was Treasure’s best friend in
the herd when the two were at Out 2 Pasture. Banking
On It, another who is unsuitable for a second
career, had once been treated for EPM, a disease
that affects the central nervous system. The Fletchers
were willing to take a chance on him anyway.
Both horses are happy
and healthy on the Fletcher’s small farm
in Jefferson City, Missouri farm, cared for by
a couple that deserves tremendous credit for its
good deeds.
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