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ASPCA Grants Help Rehabilitate and Retrain Retired Racehorses
The American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has granted $225,000 to nine equine rescue groups to support their efforts to rehabilitate and retrain retired racehorses. Selected recipients include a wide range of equine rescues, each being awarded a grant ranging from $10,000-$45,000. Recipients of the 2018 ASPCA Rescuing Racers Initiative include CANTER (National & Mich.), Friends of Ferdinand, Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc., MidAtlantic Horse Rescue Inc., New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program, ReRun Inc., The Exceller Fund Inc. and Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Since its launch in 2010, the ASPCA Rescuing Racers Initiative has awarded more than $2 million to prepare retired race- horses for new homes and second careers.
Congress Passes Bill Defining Horses As Livestock, Not Pets
On Dec. 12 Congress passed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
KVN Corona Lands In OKC On Way To Lazy E Ranch
KVN Corona (Corona Cartel-Executive Looks, Executive Menace) landed in Oklahoma City on Dec. 5 and was taken to Lazy E Ranch to stand
his first year at stud. The 2015 gray stallion was the 2017 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt. With earnings of $868,077, KVN Corona won the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity-G2 and the El Primero Del Ano Derby-G3, and was second in the Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1. His introduc- tory fee will be $5,000.
(H.R.2), which the President is expected
to sign. According to an American Horse Council release, horse industry highlights in the bill include a revised statutory definition that excludes equines from a blanket defini- tion of “pets,” as well as funding for key livestock and international market develop- ment programs through Fiscal Year 2023. The bill will help preserve the long-standing classification of horses as “livestock,” while allowing equines to fall within the scope of property damage subject to compensation within the parameters of the PAWS (Pet And Women Safety) Act. Of the $150 million
of mandated funding, the bill stipulates
that Congress will appropriate $112 mil- lion “to be allocated among the NAHLN, the NADPRP and the NAVVCB,” a major priority for the horse industry. It also pro- vides “$255 million in annual mandatory funding” for Foreign Market Development, the Market Access Program and other programs that support the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS).
Queen For Cash
The Rest of the Story
Pages 201 and 202 of our November issue featured Queen For Cash as our Photo Archive horse after winning the Miss Princess Handicap on May 3, 1982. As is true of most horses we feature in our Photo Archive section, there’s always more that can be said. As talk radio pioneer Paul Harvey would say, “And now, the rest of the story.” Queen For Cash was purchased by J.E. and Bunny Jumonville at the 1982 Phillips Ranch Sale for $1.125 million, a sum that was the highest price paid at public auction for any Quarter Horse. She went on to race
for the Jumonvilles after July 1982 and ran a close third in the All American Gold Cup at Ruidoso Downs.
SPEEDHORSE PHOTO ARCHIVES
Can you identify the horse in this picture? Here’s a hint: He was the 1974 Champion Aged Stallion. The answer is on page 226.
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