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As you will discover as you tour our website, the TRF is a place of hope and renewal. It is a place for Thoroughbreds to go when their racing days are behind them, a place where they will be safe, healthy and well cared for. It is a place that offers a humane alternative to the dire possibilities that have long faced a great majority of ex-racers - neglect, abuse and slaughter. It is a place, built on love and caring, that is befitting such noble and deserving animals.
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How You Can Help
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Paragallo's Animal Cruelty Trial to Resume
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| Ernie Paragallo has denied that he starved and neglected his horses; he faces up to two years in prison and $35,000in fines if found guilty. Read more... |
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STACK IT UP! TRF Launches the Spring 2010 Hay Drive
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TRF launched a new fundraising drive this year: the Hay Drive. By May 1, 2010, TRF hopes to raise $300,000 to help feed its herd of 1200 retired thoroughbred racehorses. This fund drive will be primarily through the internet and giving by text.
“We chose our hay usage as the illustration for raising these funds because hay is the mainstay of our horses’ winter diet. People don’t realize what it means to feed 1200 horses. By talking in terms of the number of bales of hay it takes, we hope that people can realize the magnitude of what the TRF does.” explained TRF’s Executive Director, Diana Pikulski.
You can sponsor as many bales as you choose at $5 each.
- $5 buys one bale.
- $50 feeds a horse for 2 weeks.
- $100 Wagon Load
- $250 Truck Load
Click Here to Join the Hay Drive!
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NYRA Adopts Anti-Slaughter Policy
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The New York Racing Association is taking a stand against horse slaughter.
Officials with the organization on Thursday announced they have adopted a new policy through which the association will permanently revoke stalls provided to any horse owner or trainer found to have directly or indirectly sold a horse for slaughter.
...Diana Pikulski, executive director of the Saratoga Springs-based Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, said NYRA's new policy should send a message to those entering the racing world that horses aren't simply commodities.
"It's a very important development because it means that people are going to be thinking - from the beginning, when they first breed or buy a horse - about what the plan is for the end of their life," she said.
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The Jockey Club Renews Retirement Program
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The Jockey Club is once again offering owners and breeders the opportunity to contribute, through a voluntary checkoff program, to Thoroughbred aftercare programs at the time they register their foals in 2010, it was announced Jan. 5 by James Gagliano, president of The Jockey Club.
The retirement checkoff program, created in 2009, is administered by The Jockey Club, and it raises funds to assist the retirement, retraining, and adoption efforts of Thoroughbred Charities of America and the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. Read Entire Article
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New York Times Editorial
Out of the Gate
Published: December 27, 2009
Once a glorious thoroughbred’s competitive days are done, the notion of happily ever-aftering in the grass is largely myth. Read the entire article
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TRF, Suffolk Downs and Fields Family Foundation Establish Home for Retired Racehorses at the Plymouth County Sherriff's Farm
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PLYMOUTH, MA - The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) and Suffolk Downs, through the support of the Fields Family Foundation, have established a home for retired racehorses at the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Farm in Plymouth, MA, where inmates from the Plymouth County Correctional Facility will care for the horses as part of the facility’s extensive vocational program. Read Entire Story
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Jockey Club Round Table Focuses on Medication and Equine Welfare Read Entire Story...
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A port in the storm: Greener pastures teaches skills, offers hope Read Entire Story...
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Tougher horse laws planned read more
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Farm Offers Second Chance For Horses & Inmates Reporting read more
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TRF and the Illinois Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association to Launch Program read more...
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Trainer Rewards Program Helps TRF read more
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NY TBred Breeders Seek Task Force to Strengthen Horse Rescue Efforts read more
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