While all good rescues take care of injuries, none I know can afford ppes. That’s for the potential adopter to perform.
By the time a rescue, any rescue, quarantines the horse, shoes it and takes care of any injuries it comes with, even if that horse and every other sound horse in the rescue is adopted the day they’'re ready to go, those funds are not enough to support a herd of lame horses. Not even TRF has been able to come up with a business plan that will support unadoptable horses. Turning over sound horses as quickly as possible will support a rescue whose primary mission is to find new careers for tbs.
Rescues won’t survive if they don’t stay solvent and most have essentially the same business plan as sales barns.
I know exactly what it takes in terms of both time and money to go out and look at a horse, determine suitability, buy it, ship it home, give it the time it needs and then start the long process of retraining.
If the first steps of this process are going to be offered for free by any rescue, I can think of absolutely no reason it shouldn’t be offered to everyone. 
Most rescues tend to have “fixed rates” anyway.
If you want to avoid the hassle of dealing with Penn’s rules, get your horses at a tb rescue or through CANTER or Turning for Home.
New Vocations has an excellent educational record and has published a book, Beyond the Track, available to everyone. If Penn isn’t aware of this book, maybe you could make them aware.
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You are so missing the forest for the trees, Penn program had an opportunity to take the Best from every model and make this one shine. Plus adapt a no horse Left Behind Policy/Program. Which should include euthanasia
JL your horses were from DE a seasonal track where when it closes they either move South or to a new track. It was easier to give those sound horses to CANTER than move them on @ that moment in time. Plus you have Allie doing her new “Thing” in Carolina’s re-training and selling to the sports horse market. Something you yourself have been doing on a smaller scale succesfully. All of which is a super model. Bev Strauss has a tiptop program.
Turning For Home moves alot of horses.
So where do you propose all of the horses who are not eligable for Penn’s program go??
I have no clue?? But I can guess.
I already support 2 who have no futures as riding horses and 1 outstanding owner who pays for his horse to be retired. I have $$$ supported and found homes for a few and put some down. I have $$$ supported given alot away who needed that extra TLC to reslove issues before going to lesser stressful sports horse careers.
My financial resources come from the horses I do sell, there is no deep well of $$ here.
We all draw from the same supply pools, we all sell to pretty much the same narrow market.
It only makes good business sense to advertise, educate and expand your market and target. Educate and bring in new buyers and make it as easy as possible.
I have every intention of doing doing just that on a much smaller scale .!!![/QUOTE]
Most rescues do not sell their tbs for big money. From your other posts on this bb it sounds like your sales horses are very expensive and so I think you’re mistaken when you say “we all sell to pretty much the same narrow market”.
I don’t think JL or I have missed the forest for the trees or the trees for the forest. I’m sincerely confused about where you’re coming from and exactly where you’re trying to go. I agree with Laurierace, calling the program at Penn might be the most constructive step you could take.
