Horses that often seem within the Hampton Traditional may very well be headed for the slaughterhouse due to the pandemic, insiders worry.
A high coach and a stable-owner inform Web page Six that at the moment of yr metropolis dwellers are often heading out to the Hamptons, the place they lease so-called “college horses” or “schoolies” for his or her children for the horse present season that culminates within the famed Bridgehampton present.
However with out the revenue from classes and leases, trainers out East are already desperately struggling to feed the horses — and if they'll’t afford to maintain them, they’ll should promote them to sellers who’ll doubtless promote them on for meat. Deborah Flynn, proprietor of Grouse Ridge Farm in Medford, New York, tells us that it prices $500-600 a month simply to feed a horse, and with the excessive lease for stables out East, it might probably price $2000 a month in complete to have a horse there.
Flynn says she’s been taking donations of cash and feed — and dipping into her personal financial savings — to fill a barn with provides that native trainers can take for his or her horses, however demand far outstrips provide. Flynn, who’s helped dealer offers for horses for Bruce Springsteen and Burt Reynolds, amongst others, “I began getting telephone calls from folks saying, ‘We’re determined — we'd like extra hay.’ I’ve been a continuing search to get extra donations.”
Coach Patty Messina-Tanzarella of Michel Palacci’s Skye Acres in Patchogue informed us, “Persons are going to finish up having to promote the horses low cost, and so they’re going to finish up within the incorrect place. They’re going to finish up at public sale and going to the slaughterhouse.” Flynn added, “It’s a tragedy. These horses have served kids their entire lives.”
Flynn has arrange a Fb fundraising web page at “Deborah G’s Pets/Animal Fundraiser” to lift cash for extra feed. She informed us she’d initially aimed to lift $50,000, however she now believes she’ll want to search out much more.
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