Just spreading the word: http://www.ratemyhorsepro.com/thoroughbred-mutilation-leads-race-truth/
Very sad but it is my understanding that this is happening more and more with Thoroughbreds. Pretty mare, looks like she might’ve been a broodmare. Wonder if it is the same Pennsylvania breeder who has been dumping them for months at New Holland
with them. If you don’t have your OTTB’s papers, with include his racing name, however, you may find some helpful information under his top lip?in the form of a tattoo. With his tattoo?and even if it’s only partially legible?The Jockey Club Registry can help you learn his racing name. With that, you can get his race record, pedigree and sales information.
One piece of information you can find out right away is what year the horse was born by looking at his Thoroughbred tattoo letter. The tattoo is a letter followed by five numbers. (Thoroughbreds older than 25 years old may only have four numbers.) The letter corresponds to the horse’s birth year. Here’s a handy Thoroughbred tattoo letter age chart to help you figure out what year your Thoroughbred was born. The alphabet starts over every 27 years, so a horse with an “A” tattoo might have been born in 1971 or 1997.
I hope this helps if you can ask your vet how old your mare is as all thorougbreds birth are Jan 1 and the year. So find out the year and what farm the mare came from. The markings they go by as well like a bay or dark brown with one white hind sock etc. I’ll help you out as much as I can. I used to work on a thoroughbred farm in my 20’s so I know about these things. I hate abuse to any animal as that is so cruel and inhumane.
Private message me and I’ll help u out okay.
Anne from Ontario Canada
I sent your article and photos of your link to the Canadian thoroughbred horse society here in Ontario Canada. I told them about it and all I can do is wait to see if they or can’t identify the mare with the removed tattoo. Its pretty hard to do but all I can do is try for you. I hope this helps a bit.
Crossing our fingers,
Anne
Hate this! But, whatever idiot did this may not realize that the horse can be identified using DNA testing if she is JC registered. Hope they track down the people who did this.
JC overnighted them the DNA kit, bet there’s a story coming
You know, this disgusting stuff just never ends, does it? It makes me heartsick.
What a sweet looking mare.
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Very sad but it is my understanding that this is happening more and more with Thoroughbreds. Pretty mare, looks like she might’ve been a broodmare. Wonder if it is the same Pennsylvania breeder who has been dumping them for months at New Holland[/QUOTE]
Can you name the breeder? One of my mares was with Star Barn Thoroughbreds. They were involved in bad stuff.
Annabel Lee (FL)
TB, B, M, foaled February 25, 2008
( J Town - Lexi Leigh, by Soviet Lad)
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=8337610®istry=T&rbt=TB
bred in 2014 and 2015 to TBs
The 2014 foal, a filly by Dialed In, is still unnamed,according to equibase. Bred by the owners of the mare. http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=9698651®istry=T
Makes you wonder where it might be. 
Bless that poor mare for her sketchy connections. So glad she was pulled and rescued.
Here she was profiled in better times in a June, 2011 article by Nick Fortuna in the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association (FTBOA) site:
The field also includes Florida-bred Annabel Lee, a daughter of J Town who is seeking her first stakes victory. The filly is trained by Miami’s K. David Schwartz, who bred and owns her along with Sarah G. Schwartz. Annabel Lee has won two of her seven starts and earned $31,478.
Annabel Lee most recently was sixth in the $72,000 Little Silver Stakes on the Monmouth grass May 29. Artisanal, Salary Drive and Oak Marsh, who finished first, second and fourth in that race, return Saturday.
http://v1.ftboa.com/fl-equine-pub/w2w/2004-trainer-ryan-aims-for-big-weekend-at-monmouth-
What’s the latest on this? After looking at different info online, I am inclined to believe that her breeders/owners really liked this mare. She was only entered in one higher-dollar claiming race and the rest were allowance or allowance optional claiming races. In the first six of those races I viewed on Equibase, she was only offered for a claim price in one. Then they bred her, twice? What happened?
I don’t think those owners did this; I can’t believe they did because it would be too sad and awful; I think they sold her or gave her to a clever scam artist. I just hope that there is an investigation underway and that the lack of new public information is just the silence before the storm.
According to a very reliable source, ‘her former connections had nothing to do with this. But, the dots are being connected.’
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According to a very reliable source, ‘her former connections had nothing to do with this. But, the dots are being connected.’[/QUOTE]
Thank you for that information.
Looking through the data online, I felt like I had a picture of the owners. They bought Annabel Lee’s dam and got two foals from her, the second of which was Annabel Lee. Then they campaigned Annabel Lee through her entire race career with what seemed to me to be great care that she didn’t get claimed, to the point that the mare might have made them more money if they had risked dropping her down in claiming races. Since they didn’t do that, I can only imagine that they loved her and wanted to keep her. Then, they did keep her after her racing career and they bred her at least once. (Blackstallion2 says twice but I don’t know how to find that 2015 covering on equibase). So they owned this mare for years, raised her from a foal, raised her babies and the picture that brings to me (whether it is accurate or not) is that they cared about this horse and wouldn’t have disposed of her. I am very happy to hear that they are the good people they seem to be.
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i don’t know who the breeder is that has been doing a lot of dumping but there is a known TB breeder in the PA area who has been dumping pregnant or barren TB broodmares at New Holland for the past several months. Usually in groups. Apparently the breeder is known but no one will publicly post their name.
Always a group of nice looking, well balanced and seemingly well cared for mares too. Very sad that the breeder would dump heavily pregnant mares like that under multiple different instances and never look back
I, too would like to know who it is.
You have to wonder if cutting the tattoo out has as much to do with hiding her fate from her prior owners as hiding her identity from the public at auction.
