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They need to prove definitively that this trainer was the one who maimed her and sent her to slaughter but if he was I agree, his license needs to be revoked and he needs to be banned everywhere. It’s not like they don’t have DNA on file easily available to identify any registered TB so it’s not only cruel it is pointless.[/QUOTE]
While I don’t entirely disagree. IMO the majority of trainers “know” who to call when an owner tells them to find a new home for the horse. In other words get rid of it.
Saying they “didn’t know” the guy/gal I sold/gave the horse to was a scum bag is total BS 99.9% of the time.
We got a call about a filly we bred and sold at auction to a well known flat and Jumps trainer. I’ve known him for years.
I am sure you would know him and Glimmer also. He’s from a wealthy family. Has a farm as does his mother.
The filly won for them and made around $40,000.
Got a call from him when the filly was 4 in Feb/March. Asking if I wanted her because she had “tailed off”. I said give me a couple of weeks, moving some horses around and than I will take her to re-school.
Called him 2+ weeks later and said to drop her off. He said “I found her a good home, thanks”. I’ve know the guy for a long time had no reason to question how good a home,who.
Get an email in late June from someone who saw her in a “kill pen” situation with the sham rescue Another Chance for Horses.
They looked up her lip tattoo and breeder. Had to pay $600 to get her out of hell’s jail. A sh*t hole barn in the back of a junk yard that AC4H was running a “division” out of.
She looked like death warmed over. Skin and bones, scrapes all over her. Huge foot abscess. I was gutted could not believe how anyone could sleep at night doing something like this to a horse that only left the track a few months before. They must have never feed her. That’s the ploy, bleeding hearts don’t bleed $$$ for happy, healthy looking horses.
Called my “friend” the trainer and read him the riot act. He said he had no idea that would happen. I told him I wanted the name and contact information of that “good home” you gave her too. He said he would call me back. He never gave it up. I should have reported him.
AC4H wouldn’t give me any information either. They were in cahoots with the kill buyers. She wouldn’t have brought 50 cents in a kill pen. Fat ones maybe $150 from people who ship to Canada.
She was starved for a reason.
They got $600 out of me and plenty of others. The place was raided by the FBI for interstate wire fraud and other things and was shut down.
I blame owners and trainers. They just want to stop the expenses ASAP
This trainer and owner, his mother have PLENTY of money and farms. There is never an excuse to not doing the right thing. Especially these days with Canter and other organizations.
I’m suddenly very thankful that she was young and someone took a chance on her having Suffolk Downs potential when he didn’t want her anymore. This is disgusting, I wanted to vomit looking at that poor animal’s lip.