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NancyinCT,
I believe it was you the other day who posted about West of Gibraltar being pulled up at Philly. Has there been any word of his condition or what happened? Perhaps Shelly A can ask for us when she has a moment? I've been stoically optimistic for good results since you posted.

NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

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LEE (in case you haven't checked your email)...

I didn't post about West of Gibraltar, but I emailed your post to Shelley A to see what she can find out for you.

Have a great weekend!

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Hey Nancy,
Good Morning! I'm sorry, I thought it was you. No matter though, I'm glad to see you. Thanks for forwarding to Shelly too.

Have a great weekend too!
NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

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Janice,

How is everybody today?

Fran

Please see New Jersey Rescue on DB (NJ - Horses to Slaughter on Sunday)

They are trying to get everyone safe and out of the kill pen - PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!

Hiya, FsOB! Wishing all of you a lovely weekend. May all horses and their riders stay safe as well. Peace, RMH

#### To Janice: I just read yesterday's postings. I am so sorry that you received the diagnosis which you feared most for Kaiser. Please know that I am thinking of you, Denny, and Kaiser as you look at next steps. Robyn ####

Remember this? I would like to post this again to remember the bond between Edgar and his greatest ride.... Barbaro!
What a pair........
_____________________________________

BARBARO..... WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME TO PRONOUNCE. HE GAVE ME THE BIGGEST THRILL IN MY LIFE.... (SECOND ONLY TO MY KIDS BEING BORN.)
HE CHANGED THE LIVES OF SO MANY PEOPLE.... NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE WON THE DERBY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE HEART, COURAGE AND WILL TO LIVE HE SHOWED, EVEN AGAINST THE ODDS.
HE NEVER GAVE UP, HE FOUGHT SO HARD EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. HE TAUGHT US THAT TO GIVE UP IS NOT AN OPTION.
HE BEGAN THE FLAME OF HOPE THAT NEARLY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.... BUT WE MUST PUT OUR HEARTS INTO IT, IT IS UP TO US NOW TO ENSURE THIS FLAME WILL NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED.
WE HAVE TO REMEMBER HIM AS A TRUE CHAMPION AND A FIGHTER. THOSE WHO SAW HIM SAW GREATNESS.... HE LEFT HIS MARK ON HORSE RACING.
TO ALL THE FANS..... THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT THROUGH THE ROUGH TIMES. YOUR CALLS, EMAILS, AND LETTERS REALLY HELPED ME STAY ON MY FEET.
BARBARO BROUGHT A LOT OF PEOPLE TOGETHER... PEOPLE THAT REALLY LOVE THE SPORT, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, REALLY CARE ABOUT THE ANIMALS. BARBARO STOLE THOSE HEARTS FOREVER.
THANK YOU FOR BEING LOVING, CARING PEOPLE. WE HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE ARE STILL GREAT FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE MUST CONTINUE TO RAISE OUR VOICES TOGETHER..... ESPECIALLY IN THE NAME OF A HORSE THAT WE LOVED SO MUCH AND WHO BROUGHT SUCH JOY INTO OUR LIVES.
BARBARO IS GONE, BUT STILL LIVES IN OUR HEARTS, AND WILL FOREVER. THANK YOU BARBARO FOR MAKING ME A BETTER PERSON. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE RIDE OF MY LIFE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY DREAM COME TRUE. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME LOVE YOU.
I MISS YOU, MY FRIEND, AND ALWAYS WILL. HOPE TO SEE YOU DOWN THE ROAD AND WE CAN BE REUNITED FOR ONE MORE RIDE.
EDGAR PRADO
______________________

Edgar Prado will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on August 4. Please join the FOBs as we recognize Edgar on this very special occasion.

Edgar Prado
Thanks!
jan

Barbaro is in 8th place on the candle site. Please help move him up to a higher position on the site - please light some candles in rememberance, and for the spirit of Barbaro

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=barba

MORE JOE/CATHY: (PHEW.)
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There were letters and phone calls from kids asking are you all right Joe? Is it true you are camping out in your driveway and eating beans from a can?

There was no fire. Our house is fine. Just because a horse is evacuated from a fire does not mean he starts fires. (Jennifer Wright would not stop laughing over this one... she tells me to name a future horse Bic)

I am not the Joe Shelton who was born in Las Vegas. I was born in Salt Lake City. There is a Joe Shelton from Las Vegas who ropes cows, and he can spit tobacco juice 40 feet into his own cowboy hat.

The only thing I now about ropes is they burn your hands. The only thing I know about cows is they give us ice cream. I tried chewing tobacco once, and it took a week for color to return to my face. Sorry, but you have the wrong Joe Shelton.

No, Cathy and I do not have ten kids living with us. We have zero kids living with us. It may often appear there are a hundred kids living on our ranch. But at the end of the day everyone goes home. And I go into the house with 6 dogs and 5 cats and one big bird. Flop on the couch in front of the 47 incher to watch yet another episode of Iron Chef America.

And even if we had ten kids living with us, I doubt I would share much. Family life is private. This is a horse rescue website. Not a kids rescue website.

I do not belong to PETA. I have never marched in front of Macys during a fur sale. If ever I get some free time, do you really think I am going to Macys?

Glad we could clear this up...

Not to knock chat rooms. I know of dozens, or maybe hundreds of horses who owe their lives to chat rooms.

We will be finding good homes for a ranch foreclosure early next week. Once again, we do the sight unseen thing. Our horse haulers are ready. Please consider taking on one more horse. I know I am annoying. Always asking for help. But another ranch bites the dust. And their horses need new places to live.

Joe

Top Left: It has been one month since I bought a preggo mare from a feed lot. The mare was not due to foal for a month, but the very next morning there was a colt on the ground. The mare is a beast. Twice she tried to kill her kid. Jodi Tuft said she has a mare who will gladly adopt the colt. This is a picture from earlier in the week. A happy family playing together. The colt from our ranch is running last.

Top Right: Our two new round pens delivered. In memory of Susie Ingersoll. Also a big Thank You to Ann & Robert.

WHERE is everyone today? PLEASE HELP US GET THOSE nj HORSES TO SAFETY. WE CAN SORT IT ALL OUT after THEY ARE SAFE...

THIS MAKES ME CRAZY.i KNOW WE CAN DO THIS. WE PLEDGED TO SUPPORT THE BFA EFFORTS, RIGHT?
PLEASE SEND WHATEVER YOU CAN.

I OVER DREW MY PALTRY BANK ACCOUNT THIS MONTH SO I AM SENTENCED TO CHEERLEADING AND I HOPE YOLE DON'T MIND...

PLEASE: ANY AMOUNT WILL HELP BECAUSE, IT ALL ADDS UP. ONE DROP OF WATER IN A GLASS, THEN ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER, AND GUESS WHAT!? IT WILL FLOW OVER THE TOP OF THE GLASS....

LOVE MY FOBS.

Barbaro and Lost in the Fog need candles

Could someone post the DRF story on Champion Lodge? Thanks in advance.

Please help the NJ 10 Plus...I'm tapped, everyone is tapped. Anything, please anything.

Denise

July 26 Cherokee Devotional [sharing email from Harriette Brillianthawk]

Over the years we forget how many times we follow the same paths. So accustomed to the twists and turns most of us could walk with our eyes closed--except for the gnarled plum that grows too close to the path.

Somewhere in our deepest memory are all the little paths, the little rabbit runs we have walked. Plans were made, fears were put aside, tears were shed, and decisions were made along these paths. When we were children, around the bend was a long way from home. Even now we sense we have strayed too far. But we are still within earshot of those paths that lead us back to everything that waits with open arms.


Before our red brothers pass to the happy hunting ground, let us wash off our war paint in the river. Let us break our arrows.

Plenty Coups
Crow Chief

CT's Naughty Nutmeggers are poised to spring into action on behalf of America's horses, pending further information and clarification.

However, no successful poker player ever won the pot by laying his/her cards face up on the table for the opponents to see.

In the spirit of winning poker players, we will be holding our cards very close to the vest, but rest assured WE ARE IN THE GAME TO STAY, AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN THAT POT!

Here you are, Denise :)

No place for butchers' little helpers
By JAY HOVDEY

DEL MAR, Calif. - Richard Fields is just your average guy from the Bronx
who wears a cowboy hat through the rainy streets of Manhattan, owns a
casino and a racetrack, and spends as much time as possible with the
horses on his ranch in Wyoming.

He is also the first racetrack owner to go out of his way to endorse a
zero-tolerance policy when it comes to horse slaughter commerce in his
own backyard, while at the same time putting teeth in a house rule that
would ban any trainer caught sending a used-up racehorse to the butchers.

Granted, the Fields racing empire is made up entirely of Suffolk Downs,
the struggling Boston track in which he purchased a controlling interest
in April of 2007. Now in his second season as majority owner, Fields has
had a positive response from local racing fans, especially for reviving
the moribund Massachusetts Handicap with a $500,000 purse and
repositioning it as a prep for the Breeders' Cup Classic.

It was Fields's announcement on the slaughter issue, though, that caught
the media's eye last month, especially in an atmosphere of heightened
sensitivities toward racehorse welfare triggered by the death of Eight
Belles in the Kentucky Derby and the graphic HBO RealSports report about
a Thoroughbred going directly from the Mountaineer Racetrack backstretch
to a Canadian slaughterhouse.

"Just because their career is done, doesn't mean you're gonna barbecue
them," Fields said last week. "When was the last time we barbecued
somebody out of the NFL?

"Historically, I have a philosophy of not wanting to give up on these
animals. I've always loved horses. I can't explain it, but I grew up
wanting to be a cowboy. Recently we've taken three racehorses from the
track to the ranch, so we've been able to watch that transition. One
went on a trail ride up the mountain to about 9,000 feet. Another is in
training as a hunter-jumper. They're happy.

"What I really wanted to do was send a signal to the industry," Fields
added. "The fellows running the backstretch know the shippers who
present a problem, and they're banned from the track. All I did was to
say, listen, guys, if you think there's a new ownership who doesn't care
about this, you're wrong. There was already a policy of zero tolerance.
I just took it to another level."

You would think opposing the sale of horses directly from a racetrack to
slaughter would be about as controversial as coming down on the side of
Mom and apple pie. It should be a relatively easy position for a
racetrack management to take, but any penalties would require diligent
investigation to enforce. Livestock auctions that feed foreign slaughter
industries continue to flourish, even in states like California where
the slaughter trade is illegal. Enterprising buyers troll the stables at
every racetrack, offering trainers and their owners an easy way to
dispose of outclassed, broken-down claimers while providing enough of a
cover story to offer deniability all around.

Even a good-faith donation of a retired racehorse can backfire. Just ask
Ron Charles, president of Santa Anita Park and chief operating officer
of Magna Entertainment Corp.

In the fall of 2006, Charles learned that his former graded stakes
winner Champion Lodge had been pulled out of a feedlot in Colorado while
on his way to likely slaughter in a facility still legally operating in
Illinois. The last Charles had heard of his horse, he'd been donated to
a high school agriculture program when he could no longer stand training.

"If he'd been healthier, he would have ended up slaughtered," Charles
noted. "He was too lame to load, otherwise he would have been on that
truck. Just an awful thought."

Champion Lodge was rescued and nursed back to health by a local ranch
owner Margaret DeSarno, a pre-vet student who somehow scraped together
the $500 asked by the slaughter shippers. Charles offered to bring the
horse back to California, but DeSarno exercised her right of ownership
and has been rewarded with a much healthier and very grateful Champion
Lodge.

"She sent me a picture of him not long ago," Charles said. "He's a very
lucky horse, and he looks great."

Luck, though, should have nothing to do with it, and Charles knows it.
He also knows that the many private, nonprofit rescue and retirement
organizations can handle only a small part of the retirement population,
and that racetracks, with their financial and political clout, should
lead the way in finding a solution.

"For years and years we have been troubled by this," Charles said. "And
at first, it seems overwhelming. But the more we talked about it, the
more you understand that it's the right thing to do. It's a matter of
working out how to do a better job on a larger, more organized scale."

For his part, Fields is already searching for his own institutional
solution to the retirement issue.

"When you get involved in horse racing, and you realize there might be a
tendency to send horses off to slaughter, you've got to do something,"
he said. "We've looked at purchasing or leasing a large farm, to do it
on a New England basis. My position is, you've got to find them a home.
That may be easier said than done. But you've got to try."

just to add, you have to meet Champ to appreciate how he's been restored to the amazing horse he is. He's one of my very favorite pocket horses

### Hay Fren Sophie's Nee,

Thanks for keeping WEST OF GIBRALTAR in your heart. 'Twas I who posted the question as to how he fared. I still don't know how it turned out. Thank you for your kind concern, and for asking around. Let's pray for a good outcome.

Your FOB Fren, O

Dear FOB frens,

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your kind thoughts. I know you understand the heartbreak we are going through. This is the first time we don't have another dog in the house and won't get another because of Den's severe disabilities. Kaiser is so special and I thank God for every moment we have him. He's been more child than dog.

I'm going to follow Barbi's advice and use a holistic approach which might buy a bit of additional time.

I appreciate your support - don't know how to get through this without it. I'm neither brave nor strong.

Janice
A forever FOB

Good morning, and happy Saturday, famblee!

The Hovey article is excellent. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

We'll keep the pressure on. I truly believe this is only the beginning for the TB side of the equation. Exposure will increase. More responsible measures will be taken. The quarter horse side will have to succumb.

*****************

Pink nodes kisses, much love, and wishes for strength and ease for our beloved Kaiser, Over Enough, and Nala; and for Cheryl G's dog.

NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY for HR 6598 set for Weds July 30 - please stay tuned for details.

Meanwhile - everybody wants to see exactly what the new law says. Deb and Shelley have asked me to pass out this info.

Text of the New Bill (now up on Thomas.gov)

110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6598

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 24, 2008

Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. NADLER, and Ms. SUTTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008".

SEC. 2. SLAUGHTER OF HORSES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
(a) In General- Chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

'Sec. 50. Slaughter of horses for human consumption

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly--

(1) possesses, ships, transports, purchases, sells, delivers, or receives, in or affecting interstate commerce or foreign commerce, any horse with the intent that it is to be slaughtered for human consumption; or

(2) possesses, ships, transports, purchases, sells, delivers, or receives, in or affecting interstate commerce or foreign commerce, any horse flesh or carcass or part of a carcass, with the intent that it is to be used for human consumption;

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years or both.

(b) If--

(1) the defendant engages in conduct that would otherwise constitute an offense under subsection (a);

(2) the defendant has no prior conviction under this section; and

(3) the conduct involves less than five horses or less than 2000 pounds of horse flesh or carcass or part of a carcass;

the defendant shall, instead of being punished under that subsection, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(c) The Attorney General shall provide for the humane placement or other humane disposition of any horse seized in connection with an offense under this section.

(d) As used in this section, the term "horse" means any member of the family Equidae.'.

(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections for chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

`50. Slaughter of horses for human consumption.'

[end of text of HR 6598]

THERE IS A NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY jointly called for by HSUS and AAHS coming up on WEDNESDAY July 30 - I will be posting details very shortly both here and at the DB and via email to our mass distribution group.

GO GET EM!

CJ on behalf of DebraWI and ShelleyA

Janice,

You're wrong--you are very brave and very strong. You have been here lo these many, many months, hearing and seeing about the awful things done to animals. You've read and learned and advocated and fought back.

You've been proactive with Kaiser from the beginning, taking him to the vet over and over. Going through the testing with him. Learning what can be done, and making decisions and DOING. You're going through Denny's process with him. Testing and learning and deciding and DOING.

That, my fren, takes strength and bravery.

There have been and will be times when you're tired or overwhelmed and you need support. That's normal. It takes wisdom to recognize that need and strength and courage to act on it.

So Jan, and all of us who have struggled or are struggling with our loved ones, be they family or a broken-down horse on the other side of the country: we are the bravest, strongest people I've ever seen.

Cheryl, thanks for posting that piece from DRF "no place for butcher's little helpers."

It's time for other tracks - including the one in my town, Saratoga Springs, to honor the public's overwhelming disapproval of horse slaughter by adopting a zero-tolerance policy. After Eight Belles, refusing stalls to those who allow their horses to go to slaughter would be a positive public relations move for the industry. With the evidence out that slaughter is cruel, in some cases deliberately cruel, there is no more pretending slaughtering horses to make big markup profits for offshore corporations is in any way, shape or form a humane euthanasia service. The horse slaughter pipeline will never police itself and become humane.


The race tracks have the chance to look good by banning horse slaughter before the Government does it legislatively; like drugs, taking a pro-active stance is more positive than waiting until the govermment has to do what the industry could easily take care of in-house.

Dear, dear Janice

what took to the place you are right now is a huge amount of strength and you are so very brave. That's what love does to us. Your strength and bravery is matched only by your dedication and loyalty to your precious Kaiser.

When we face these terrible life decisions, we draw upon inner resources and are lead by unseen forces that guide us. If you ever, even if just for one second, have a need for a safety net, we're here for you. We will not let you fall

XXXXOOOO

NJ Rescue

Weds July 30 / call-in day for HR 6598

Deb and Shelley asked me to get out the info ASAP re CALL-IN DAY WEDS July 30. Please take action AND forward this info to ALL your contacts; THANK YOU!

Note - For ease in contacting your Rep, in case you don't know who he/she is, you can use this link (just insert yr zipcode to get the contact info): [close up spaces]

http: // www. visi.com/juan/congress/

And now - here's the info re CALL-IN DAY July 30, 2008

New Hope For Horses
Call-In Day July 30, 2008

H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008, was just introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the horses need YOUR VOICE to help pass this bill and protect them from the cruelty of slaughter.

H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty, is similar to H.R. 503 by prohibiting the knowing and intentional possession, shipping, transporting, purchasing, selling, delivering or receiving of a horse for slaughter. However, H.R. 6598 takes a simpler approach, prohibiting horse slaughter under the U.S. Code that addresses certain aspects of animal cruelty and abuse (known as “Title 18”). It creates a strong enforcement mechanism to prevent killer buyers from crossing the border with truckloads of horses, but only amends Title 18.

Please contact your U.S. Representative and ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008. There is a Congressional Hearing on Thursday, July 31, so it’s essential to call Congress on July 30th!

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Representative’s office. When contacting your U.S. Representative, it’s important to remember to be polite and respectful.

Here is a suggested script for conveying all of the necessary points to the legislative staffer:

"Hello, my name is [your name] and I live in [your town]. As a constituent, I'm calling to urge my Representative to co-sponsor a new important bill: H.R. 6598, the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, to prevent horses from being cruelly slaughtered for human consumption.”

Thank you for all you’re doing to end horse slaughter! Together we can end this cruel and inhumane practice!

Thanks for helping the horses.

Americans Against Horse Slaughter
"Spread The Word - Join The Movement"
americansagainsthorseslaughter.com

CALL JULY 30th!

[end official message from AAHS/HSUS]

Note - You can also use these DC 800 numbers and ask for the legislators by name (or ask for extension, last 5 numbers of each legislator's office phone).

800-828-0498

800-828-1887

800-614-2803

Note - the text of the new Bill [HR 6598] is posted here

Posted by: CJaffe at July 26, 2008 5:23 PM

and at the DB

http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=26837.1

Direct Link to Paypal for NJ Rescue

memo NJ Camelot

Dear Frens, just musing...here is a 'picture' of my ideal dream for the next FOB Celebration of Barbaro.

Who: FOBs

When: BARBARO Stakes weekend, 2009.
Saturday for the Celebration, and Sunday for races and BARBARO stakes.

Where: FAIR HILL/Saturday, Racetrack/Sunday.

At Fair Hill: The training center, riding stable, event *pavilion, and near-by golf course. *(Fair Hill people have mentioned that a covered venue would be made available to us at a very reasonable fee of around $300... so I 'call' this the pavilion.)

What: Saturday:

1)Watching the morning workouts, with perhaps a glimpse of NICANOR and LENTENOR; coffee doughnuts bagels at the pavilion.

2)Horse rides for FOBs;

3)Visiting with rescue horses at the stable. Brunch available at the pavilion;

4)A fund raising golf tourney for those who may enjoy golf, (THIS might turn into a super annual event..."THE BARBARO OPEN");

5)All day long, at the pavilion; meet-and-greet-gathering of FOBs and invited celebrities; vendors' tables, finger-food-lunch munchies and soft drinks. FOB talent showcase begins...

6)Late afternoon/evening (again at the pavilion) Fund Raiser Auction. More food, (keeping it simple, this time)...perhaps pizza, nachos, salads, and deserts. FOB talent showcase continues. Additional opportunity for our guests to speak. Tributes to our beloved BARBARO.

Sunday: We meet at the track FOR THE RACES. We will watch from the stands, like real racing fans. We have purchased our block of tickets and attend together, as FOB.

We "dress-up-nice", in Lael colors, (dresses and hats for the ladies, ties on the gentlemen) ...thus establishing a classy new tradition. Then, evermore, for all the years to come, people will attend the BARBARO dressing up in Blue and Green.

Why: To carry on the legacy of our hero. To celebrate, remember, and honor BARBARO.

Woooooldn't it be Loverly?

Your FOB Fren, O

PS: WAIT A WHILE is running at Saratoga today. (Love her!)Praying for a safe trip for everyone. Very important Sunday runnings...Everybody PRAY!

Jan,

We are here for you and you are brave. (((((Jan)))))

Ro & Brady

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Please help the NJ Rescue....do not let one precious soul go to the meatman...we can stop this...please donate...please..

Just look at their beautiful pictures...Barb, Fran, and I are crazy about the crooked leg mule....in fact we are crazy about all of them....

PLEASE...HELP...SO THEY CAN POST THE WORDS...ALL SAFE.

Monday is fast approaching....we have our guns loaded and ready to attack Congress to get the bill pass and save our horses...one day...at will be nothing but helping rescues...and peace and harmony...ONE DAY....

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Good Afternoon Barbaro

We are here...carrying out your tasks....we love you...we miss you.

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Good Afternoon Famblee...

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And...Alex...always...thank you.

O,
These are great ideas; I too, have been wondering if there is a place large enough at FH to use as a funraising site. We might even be able to get the community involved then. I have been to the Fair Hill Stable web but didn't see anything on the pavillion, of course, I might have over looked the link. Am I going to the right site?

Anyway, I think these are great ideas.
KLB

### Dear Fren Kathy,

I merely 'call' the covered venue, a "pavilion." I had herd that a covered area at Fair Hill could be made available for around $300.

There are otherFOB with more info. I am embarrassed to say that I can't remember who it was who told me. It wasn't Sharon...hmmmmm....it might have been barnmom. I will continue to sleuth.

Anyway, thanks for your comment. I would love to bypass the Delaware Park thingy all together, for our actual Celebration gathering.

Fair Hill was most welcoming to us. Del Park was not. To gather in the beauty, and peace of Fair Hill, for our private event, would insure we are welcome to be FOBs and retain control of our own agenda, as well as insure that no 'strangers' would be milling around.

Let's keep the ideas coming. Looking forward to the next gathering.

Your FOB Fren, O

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Come on family...we are all strapped...I am...but I had to mail donations in yesterday....PLEASE HELP....

and let us pray our new bill to pass the anti-horse slaughter bill will pass quickly...and Praise God...we will not have to worry about killer pens, killer buyers, and our beautiful horses sold and killed for horsemeat.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Jan, your family is here. We care about you and sweet Kaiser. You are brave and strong as you have been with Kaiser every step of the way with great love. I think it is the purest love that a person can give.

Joan..it loks as though all are safe from shipment, just need a bit more in donations. Hopefully by the end of this weekend, we'll all be able to breathe for the NJ horses :)

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Thank you Cheryl Jones...you and all the FOBS are a blessing....God sent to save the horses...

the MULE WAS SAVED!!!! YAY! somebody else fell in love with her :)

Semi-good news about the NJ 10 Plus...after $180, I just couldn't give anymore. Thank you FOBs. Let's tie up the loose ends and get them safe. Remember, NBFA is involved (although, apparently hard to get ahold of).

Such good news about a new tack for the horses (tack as in sailing, but just as good for the horses...pun intended and a breath of fresh air), HR6598.

I intend on contacting my Senators the same day and demand that they submit a similar bill in the Senate. Webb, Warner(and he likes horses)...are you watching, reading? I'll be calling AND writing. Cantor is my House Rep and he is a great disappointment. But I won't go away. I will never go away until HS ends.

Denise
Coeurdefer

O,
I would LOVE to keep as many events as possible in the Fair Hill area but go to DP on Sunday for the races. we could sit in the club house or stands if we want.We ate at a great restaurant there before going to Tim's barn earlie in the week. food was good and very reasonable. Maybe have something catered. I bet Penny Woolley is a wealth of info on what resources are available.
KLB

Otherlyn,

LOVELY ideas for 2009! I have only one objection, and it's personal: Ain't no way you're gonna get me to wear a hat. Not gonna happen. Nuh-uh, no way. I will, however, put a Lael-covered scarf in my mane.

Re the Jersey save: this is fantastic news. But I'm wondering if anyone else is having trouble linking to NEER's paypal through the blue link?

That was supposed to be "Lael COLORED scarf".

"Music In Rainbows"

From God's Loving Heart
The Most Beautiful Rainbow Glowing Barbaro
His Wings Of Love
Eight Belles God's Glowing Angel
Her Wings Of Love
Angel Erin God's Precious Angel In The Sky
Her Wings Of Love Glowing In Rainbows
The Stars In The Sky
So, So So Special Wishes
Our Angel Horses
Nicanor
God's Divine Hope
His Wings Of Love In Rainbows
God's Light Of Love Shining On You
Lentanor
God's Glowing Angel
His Wings Of Love In Rainbows
Glowing Angels
Glowong Wings
Glowing Rainbows
Glowing Love
Barbaro's Famblee Of So, So So Beautiful Angels Here
Your Angelic Hearts Of Love
Your Wings Of Love Glowing In Rainbows
Kaiser The Wings Of Prayer
God's Love For You
Barbaro's Halo Is Glowing So, So So Beautifully
All The Colors Of The Rainbow
The Circle Of Love
In Hearts
In Roses
In Halos
In Wings
In Rainbows
The Most Beautiful Rainbow Angel Barbaro
The Circle Of Angels
Barbaro's Famblee
The Brennan Famblee
Angel Edgar
God's Beautiful Angel On This Earth
Our Angel Horses
You Are The Inspiration
God's Angels That Fly
The Rainbow Of Music
Musical Notes In The Sky
All The Colors Of The Rainbow
Churchill Sounds The Band Of Angels Singing
Songs Of Love And Joy
So, So So Special Lyrics That Mean A Lot
Bringing Hope
Divine Joy........

8........Halos.........Two Hearts.........
Connected In Love.........Divine Blessings.......
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Affirmed Rainbows..........
Sacred Prayers.........
God's Angels..........

Affirmed Prayers.........
God And The Angels Are With You.........
Jesus.........
Angel Barbaro.........
Angel Eight Belles.........
Angel Erin.........
Angel Windchill..........
Angel Secretariat.........
Angel Seattle Slew..........
Angel Ruffian..........
Angel Cuz..........
Angel Vindication..........
Angel Vinstar...........
Barbaro's Angel Frens Are With You..........
Angel LITF Is Lifting You Up In Halos.........
Their Wings Of Love...........
Their Rainbows Of Love Are Shining On You.........
God's Glowing Angels..........

Affirmed Blessings.........
God's Divine Artists..........
Barbaro's Angels..........
Planting Seeds Of Faith And Love.........
Beautiful Creations..........
Glowing..........

Affirmed

Hurray! for the mule!

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Congratulations to Lael Stables on their fourth place finish today at Saratoga with Mask & Wig! He ran a very good, strong closing race and almost got up for third.

I don't know about yole, but I LOVE seeing those Lael silks fly around the track!

NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

New Jersey Rescue - still need shipping fees to get some of the guys to their new-found homes.

Also, there are 4 or 5 who still need home offers/pledges. If there are any more angels out there, please - they need you!

see "blue link" to rescue at 5:41 p.m. timestamp (thanks BarbAZ!)

Thank you everyone for hanging in with this one!

Fran

Hi Famblee....
SURPRISE!! At least it was a very HUGE surprise for ME when I tried it on!!! I'm sitting here in my size 10 suit jacket which buttons very easily all the way down.Still a few more pounds to lose and we're there !!! Thank you ALL for your love and encouragement.

Otherlyn
ALL GREAT IDEAS!!!
I was thinking about the problems at Del Park from this years celebration and I really wondered IF WE DONATED ALL THE FUNDS from our auction to the rescue at Delaware Park if Del Park might be a little friendlier to US next year??? It would be a show of support for their zero tolerance slaughter stance and help their OTTB's too????

Just a thought I had at 2am one morning....probably sent to me from the BBH who seems to converse on a heavenly time clock!!! LOL

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Jan
SusanE is right...YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU KNOW!!
However....have you ever read that poem Footprints?? We could now call it Hooveprints cause when we get weak ...I'M SURE HE CARRIES US!!
We are here for you.We are not going away.WE LOVE YOU !! YOU ARE FAMBLEE!
Here is a MmmmmWaaaaaah(kiss) for you Kaiser and Den and a FAMBLEE HUG....
Don't be afraid to unload on US we have broad shoulders and we're good listeners.

((((((JaniceKaiserandDen)))))))))))

Glad to read the NJ horses are saved...GOODWORK

HUGS and love forever

Paypal:
newenglandequinerescues@hotmail.com
Please Memo: NJ Camelot Horses

Snail Mail:
NEER
1487 Boston Neck Rd
Saunderstown RI 02874

Let's do this folks!

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Hay, ((((((Maribel!))))))

### Fren KLB (Kathy), and Susan E,

Fair Hill, and DP, Oh yes...a good two-day Celebration to come. Now we just need the 'powers-that-be' to make-it-so. Please keep the idea set forth. I really do think that, keeping it simple...keeping it FOB...and keeping it BARBARO is the key.

Also hoping that Padme would be the money-keeper this time.

Sesan E, I can't wait to go hattie shopping, but I'm sure that you will be simply loverly, in your Lael coloured scarf.

Your FOB Fren, O

PS: STEVIE WONDER GIRL, sister to STEVIE WONDER BOY, is racing at a lesser track today. She has not been so successful as her famous brother, but she IS running in an allowance race, as she DID win her last one. Pray that she will safely earn her oats today, at LoneStar Park.

Pray that they ALL run well enough to outlast the wait for the end to the slaughter pipeline.

GO BEAUTIES GO!

Your FOB Fren, O

Alex, my apologies..forgot to say thank you for mentioning my dear friend Margaret DeSarno and her amazing Champion Lodge. He's just the best guy and the clown of Colorado Thoroughbred Rescue, and will be loved and spoiled rotten for the rest of his days.

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Hay Barb...you didn't get the MULE???!!!! LOL

The NJ horses just need some transportation money...

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT'S horse for we're HAPPY!!! LOL

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Fren Otherlyn,
I am sorry for my mistake. I couldn't read my own notes! Must be these old, tired eyes of mine. Many times we've seen our beloved Horses never mentioned after an incident. No Allegiance ended whatever trace of indifference there was left in me. These Heroes of the track deserve to be remembered and honored and cared for just as if they had won the Triple Crown. And I know it hurts your heart not knowing. I just finished emailing Barclay Tagg asking also.

NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

I wanted that mule! But it was a transport/logistics issue!

Racing on NOW on ABC (network TV) - for the next 2 hours. "Breeders Cup Challenge" from Sarasota.

The races featured on this ABC broadcast, are those mentioned in Alex's Update 3799 at the top of this page.

ooops that's Saratoga Springs NY, NOT Sarasota FL.

Note - Kent Desormeaux going into the upcoming race, with 4,999 wins, where he's been stuck for a while. 3 minutes to post for the Diana. Kent is riding somebody with "Dyna" in her name.

eeeew ick, some gate-worker at Woodbine was really cussing out a filly named VICTORY ROMANCE in the WONDER WHERE STAKES a moment ago. He was roughly pushing her into the gate, growling "go on...get in there...quit yer F---in' Bull---t...go on...get in there."

The horse finally got in...she did not win. That worker 's language and attitude was clearly caught by the mic. Not a very good impression to make before many thousands of viewers.

Forever Together wins the Diana - beautifully - from last to first - again skunked Kent Desormeaux from his 5,000th win; Kent on Dynaforce, second. Winner a gorgeous grey with that special pink number 8 . . .

Kent was on DYNAFORCE, (Yes a daughter of our favorite "daddy.)' They were second to FOREVER TOGETHER. WAIT AWHILE also ran, and did not place. Everyone home safe. A very good race.

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Dear fren Otherlyn and ALL FOB Barbaro Celebration Bound for 2009....

NOW IS THE TIME....to shop for that PERFECT CHAPEAU for the unveiling of the beautiful statue of BBH or your 2009 Celebration attire!!!! SHOP for fantastic deals NOW everything is ON SALE at BARGAIN PRICES!!!
I tried on some classy hats today !! They would have rivaled those worn by Princess Diana so beauteous they were BUT alas I came away with NONE!!! Being a true FOB I know that DEFEAT IS NOT AN OPTION LOL so the search WILL CONTINUE....
CLASSY but UNDERSTATED....I KNOW I WILL FIND IT!!!

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BARB
I just know THAT MULE was MEANT for YOU!!!!AWE SHUCKS...too bad it was SO FAR AWAY!!! I feel SAD TOO!!! YOU would have given it a lovely home with lotsa FOB love and it would have adored YOU!!!

Gotta go make early supper for Auntie....Ontario corn on the cob....green salad and a nice grilled extra lean hamburger...can't have beef too often!! How I LOVE IT!!!!

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Sandra
How is the Chiefster??? It is hot here and we had a real bang bang thunderstorm!! I always think of your boy when that happens!! The on;y thing that makes me feel better is that if I ask you to HUG him for ME I KNOW...YOU DO!!! I think he's wonderful and I'm so happy that he chose YOU!!!!

See y'all later....did I remember to tell y'all I LOVE YOU????!!!!!

((((((((((((((FsOB))))))))))))))))

"My Old Kentucky Home," Maryland My Maryland," New Your New York"....hmmmmm

...Thinking forward to the next BARBARO Stakes...a thrilling day, of gentile tradition, set in colours of Blue and Green. We'll all be there cheering our favorites on...and always betting on Edgar and a Jackson horse.

What should be the theme song (?)... the one that will always be sung, to honor BARBARO as the horses set their hooves upon the track?

Your FOB Fren, (musing again), O

link to printable flyer re call-in day July 30 for HR 6598.

The "official" version with the AAHS logo in color that you can copy/print for distribution, is here:

http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=26841.1

Gotcha covered, CJ. We should re-post on Monday!

Link to printable flyer re call-in day July 30 for HR 6598

I JUST POSTED GOOD LUCK BEAUTIFUL GINGER PUNCH!!

LOVE,
CHERYL

Maribel, The chiefster is doing fine. No thunder lately. He had to have his vet come to the house and give him a cortizone shot for his summer itching attack. The bill came today from his vet and I asked him if he is worth it and he said Yes! And of course he is.

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OK FOBS...LET US PUT THOSE HORSES ON THE TRAILERS ON THEIR WAY HOME!!!! THEY CANNOT WAIT TO GET ALL THE LOVE AND CARE FROM THEIR NEW OWNERS....NO PLACE LIKE HOME....

HOORAY for the old guy, for the two time winner, the seven year old COMMENTATOR, and his wonderful trainer, NICK ZITO!!! That's the best horse racing, for sure... don't give up, Nick says!

Otherlyn, The other day I heard the song called "I will remember you". We could change it to "We Will Remember You". I dont know but everytime I hear it I think of Barbaro. ###Saw Forever Together win and also Ginger Punch. I will never see the #8 on horse without thinking of Barbaro. #######I dont know which is worse my sinous infection or the antibodics side affects.

HOORAY for the old guy, for the two time winner, the seven year old COMMENTATOR, and his wonderful trainer, NICK ZITO!!! That's the best horse racing, for sure... don't give up, Nick says!

Congratulations to Commentator! Awesome win in the Whitney!

Dear Fren Sandra and ALL,

Oooooo, good ones, Sandra. I hope that we will get one to sing. We really should have one for his race.

Because of the research dollars raised in his name; because of the horses rescued; because of the FOB efforts to end horse slaughter; because of the people who, for the sake of BARBARO's legacy, have come together to support these causes and eachother...

...maybe this could be the song we all should sing, as the horses walk to the gate at the BARBARO Stakes...

When you're down and troubled
And you need some loving care
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a Fren

If the sky above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind begins to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon you'll hear me knocking at your door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there

Ain't it good to know that you've got a Fren
When people can be so cold
They'll hurt you, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them
Oh, but don't you let them

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a Fren

Your FOB Fren, O

###Fren Sandra,

O know what you mean about "I Will Remember You." Every time I hear that one, and "Run For he Roses," I too, think about BARBARO...and end up with tears running down.

When something touches your heart...you cry.

Your FOB Fren, O

### oops, sorry 'bout the first 'word' in the post above....the "O" is next to the "I" on the keyboard

"All you have to do is call and I'll be there..."
You've got a fren ..........
The perfecto choice, Otherlyn .......

With tears - thank you for your suggestion ......

Sherry

Forever Together - what a beauty. And Ginger Punch has such a gorgeous tail. I wish my hair looked like that! :-(

Barb - I adore mules. I was daydreaming also.

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Hey frens...just had to pop in re theme songs and say "Simply the Best" always causes a lump in the throat or tears for me.

Prayers to all in need...

Thanks Alex as always...

Love to the BBH

Liz

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LIZ

That's the song that I think has the Big Guys name on it....He was "Simply THE BEST" as the song goes "better than all the rest" !!!Those words are still true today !!

BARBARO..."SIMPLY THE BEST!"

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Amen Maribel!!!

Goodnight ALL....gotta go stay with my sisters 2yr old grandkids twins Brooke and Zavior while their parents go to the airport to pick up some famblee from Potters Bar UK.
Perhaps Liz knows where that is??? Anyway the plane is late leaving from UK and won't arrive until 1am Ontario time!!! I just have to go sleep there until they return home approx 4am or 5am??? Yawn...Yawn!!!! I'm tired already!!!!

HUGS and love

Sophie's Lee,
Congrats also to Lael in the first race at Saratoga on Rollers taking 2nd, trained by Barclay Tagg.
KLB

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Kathy,
I missed the first race at the Spa! Indeed, congratulations to Rollers and Lael. Long may those silks fly! Thank you my fren.

NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

Dear Fren Sherry,

With every thing that he is; with everything that is done because of him...
Looks like you DO get it. Now THAT is FOB!

^-,^ O

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NEW JERSEY RESCUE NEEDS OUR HELP...WE NEED DONATIONS FOR THE ONES STILL ON THE FEEDLOT AND FOR THE TRANSPORTATION...

AND BARB,FRAN, CHERYL...AND OTHERS....OUR LITTLE MULE GOT ADOPTED.

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE CARROTS...

I LOVE MY FAMILY...

NJ Rescue

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Thank you Barb..
I pray we save the rest of them....

please help with donations....there are a few still on the feedlots...and we need to get them out....please let us give them a second chance...and good life...love and care...please..

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd as you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our very own Angel Dee says, "It is Affirmed!"

Don't mean to intrude but just was taking a quick peek through the earlier posts and wow . . . . !!! All those songs you mentioned are soooooo fitting for "The Sublime One"!!!!
Sitting here singing along with all of you, and oh yes never without the tears spilling . . . .

I also still get this really clear visual of C.J. leading ALL of us in a massive musical effort to raise awareness for all equines, something like the "We Are the World" event some years back. Gosh, I can just "feel" it . . . . I wish, I wish, I wish . . . .

The mule was saved ?? Oh, I sooooo hope I saw that right!!!! Let's hope he was a wonderful new happy home!!! I love mules, donkeys ... too!!!

Holding hands, paws, hooves with the entire Barbaro Nation, and prayers and hugs going out to all (two- and four-footed) in need.

always love,
Lou Ann

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SANDRA - there you are!! You have a sinus infection? Ooohhh, no!!! Definitely not fun :(
Hope you feel better soon!! Big huggies to CHIEF!! Love that boy!!

Love, L

Hay FOB's!

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I know its early in the a.m. - couldn't sleep.

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Otherlyn, I read with interest your vision of the Celebrations and how they could evolve. Please e-mail me at lyn.gilbert@gmail.com.

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My choice for the "official" song is "Simply the Best"...ever since Pamie made that BEAUTIFUL video, I've had a vision of us in Lael colors swaying back and forth singing the refrain as some of us hold up cue cards...:) For my part, I love "You've Got a Friend" or "I Will Remember You"...and my take is I want us to feel the pure joy and exhilaration when we remember Barbaro. Pure joy...but the other two songs can be used as almost like a prayer and affirmation of who we are as FOB's...that way, we can have an FOB repertoire...we can use all 3.

Why am I up so early????

Healing, Love, Peace
ONS, OMPH
Padme

#### Maribel

Potters Bar? That's in Hertfordshire, to the north of London. They are leaving the UK just when we are having some decent weather for a change - but I'm sure they will have a wonderful time in Canada. Hope you managed to grab some sleep.

#### Padme

I have just overslept. I think all those songs are so appropriate. I was thinking of a Heather Small - M People - song called "Proud", with the lyric "What have you done today to make you feel proud"?

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Can we finish up the New Jersey rescue? please...
there is a horse with a coughing horse...dead lame...they do not know what Frank did with him....we need to find out FOBS?????

read the db...

there are many rescues going on....NEER was asking $11. for hay....

MHR having a raffle...and needing help...they have the big gals and their babies...plus others to feed.

PLEASE...we can sacrifice that Starbuck coffee, a candy bar, anything...and send money to help these rescues...please.

WE HAVE A WONDERFUL BILL THAT IS BEEN BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION...AND I KNOW BARBARO'S FAMILY HAS LOADED THEIR GUNS TO WIN THE WAR...PASS THE ANTI HORSE SLAUGHTER BILL.

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Good morning Alex...enjoy your day.
Good morning Barbaro and all of our heavenly frens.
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Our Fallen Angels...we are here.

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Otherlyn,
I have been thinking about your ideas for the Celebration. I've come to the conclusion that you've a fantastic idea. Instead of several venues we have only (really) one, Fair Hill to coordinate with. DelPark is limited to perhaps setting aside a section of seats in the grandstand and the golf, not sure about but I think that was handled very well. What I really like is the simplicity of the basic idea, and the dignity and class we'd present at the track.

NO Horse left behind or Ever Forgotten!
Lee

P.S. Padme, I echo your "Why am I up so early?" Good to see you fren early bird.

Here's a link to an article in the Saratoga newspaper about horse slaughter. Please cross-post and consider submitting a comment online. The piece seems to give a lot of ink to the usual "unwanted horse" myth and pro-slaughter talking points.



"When Horses Finish Last" - Saratogian



07/21/2008

When horses finish last


By: PAUL POST , The Saratogian

SARATOGA SPRINGS - A group opposed to horse slaughter for human consumption plans to protest outside Saratoga Race Course on Opening Day and each Sunday of the 2008 meet.


The group, "Friends of Equines, Foes of Equine Slaughter," says that top racing industry leaders, such as commercial breeding farms, need to take a stronger stand on the issue.



Slaughter is no longer allowed in the U.S. since three plants in Texas and Illinois were closed last year, but horses are still being exported to facilities in Canada and Mexico. A federal bill that would prohibit exports, first sponsored by former U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, has passed in the House, but is still in a Senate committee.



"America is the greatest exporter of horses intended for human consumption," said Christine Jubic of the "Friend of Equines" group. "We want all these people who are claiming neutrality to take a stand."



About 1 percent of the estimated 9.2 million horses in America go to market each year, she said. The most famous case, which ignited strong public outcry, involved 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand, who died in a Japanese slaughterhouse. Most of the horse meat processed in U.S. plants went to Europe and Japan.



Since those facilities closed, exports to Mexico in particular have risen dramatically - 28,771 to date this year versus 18,344 in 2007.



"When horses were processed in the U.S. the plants were under USDA supervision," said Barbara Linke, of the Texas-based American Quarter Horse Association. "Horses were well-fed and euthanized properly. They were killed instantly. In Mexico, there's no oversight, no regulation. It's worse for them to go across the border."



Numerous equine rescue and retirement programs have taken steps to find productive lives for older horses, everything from mounted police to physical and mental therapy programs. In New York, a state task force has been charged with studying the issue and reporting back to state lawmakers next year.

Task force member Jack Knowlton of Saratoga Springs is also managing general partner of Sackatoga Stable that produced 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide.

"The very, very large preponderance of horses that go to slaughter aren't race horses," he said.



He credited most thoroughbred breeders and owners with leading the fight against horse slaughter.

Other prominent groups either support slaughter or have refused to take sides. The Washington, D.C.-based American Horse Council is a major lobbying group that represents various equine interests - racing, breeding, recreation, show horses and veterinarians.

"We are neutral on the (horse protection) bill because we have members on both sides of the issue," spokesperson Kathie Luedeke said.

The country's largest organization of equine veterinarians, the 10,000-member American Association of Equine Practitioners, has come out against the horse protection measure.

"Our decision to oppose the federal legislation is not because we think slaughter is the best option," said Sally Baker of the Kentucky-based group. "The number of unwanted horses is so large, we don't feel there are enough rescue and retirement programs to absorb them all. We're concerned about an increase in abuse, neglect and starvation, which we've already seen since the plants closed last year.

"We really think that horse processing is symptomatic of a much larger problem, the unwanted horse population."

The situation might only get worse because of the increasingly high cost of feeding and boarding a horse. In some Western states, there have been reports of people simply turning horses loose in state parks or open range land.

"They're domestic animals, so that's actually more cruel and inhumane than sending them to processing plants," Linke said.

The Quarter Horse Association is also against the federal bill.

"It doesn't address what will happen to the 90,000 to 100,000 unwanted horses if they don't go to slaughter houses," she said. "It's not that we're pro-slaughter. The bill doesn't address what options horse owners would have. There are no federal funds available."

Equine rescue and retirement groups hope to find enough uses for horses that slaughter won't be needed any more.

"Obviously that would be a perfect world," Linke said. "But horses become unwanted for lots of reasons. Especially now, with the economy, we're just afraid that the unwanted horse population is going to continue to grow."

WOW how I love the thoughts of those Native American Elders - and that they are in my life and consciousness by virtue of FOB Harriette Brillianthawk is yet another example of The Barbaro Effect. (Get off the soapbox, CJ . . .)

July 27 Cherokee Devotional [sharing email from HarrietteBrillianthawk

The human race needs a loving hand. Not a permissive hand and not a hand that strikes out.. But it needs a hand that soothes and leads and does everything without a selfish motive.

Our condition is a result of disobedience. Every rule has been broken, every law, written and unwritten, has been ignored. It has all made for imbalance, injustices, broken hearts and less stability,

Where is the loving hand? It is our own. It begins with the individual who is willing to let others exist, to forgive and to be forgiven. No doubt the bad will get worse, the good will get better---and all in all it is a personal decision.


By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

John Ross
Cherokee Chief

Thanks for the Saratoga article, Susan.

There are a few errors in it, like America being the #1 horses to slaughter nation. I believe China has that distinct "honor".

****Please help close out the NJ 10 Plus Rescue***

Denise

Good Sunday Morning Gang.

I vote for 'Simply The Best' as well. I tear up a bit when I hear Tina Turner singing it. What a life that woman had. (I wish I had her legs!)

Ruidoso had some terrible flooding due to Dolly remnants. Bridges washed out, one person missing, homes lost. I can imagine what the tracks look like.

May the heavens watch over the hairy and the almost hairless.

Re: Ruidoso flooding. The Rio Ruidoso is over 11 feet above flood level. They just stated on the news that people are trapped due to wash outs. The police don't want any traffic on the roads. They can't handle anymore rescues. The area has never been flooded to this extent.

New Mexico wash outs are horrid. I was 'approached' by a 10' wall of moving mud once. After the initial shock, I backed up and high tailed it out of that canyon.

May God take care of the people and animals in Ruidoso today. They are still getting flooding rains.

WOW....that is so scary wierd !! Together Forever winning the Diana.Princess Diana and Dodi are literally together FOREVER......

Congrats to Together Forever for a spectacular WIN!!

Good Sunday morn to ebberbuddy.!!!

To ALL fans of the great and wonderful "Way To Oz" who raced at Del Park in the very first Fans of Barbaro Race and that would include myself and our very own Angel Dee....

I had a very lovely email from the owner/trainers of "Ozzie".Ozzie is currently being raced at Mountaineer Park where there has been much controversy since the NBC Special about the sending of horses to slaughter etc.

I'm overjoyed and relieved to report that "OZZIE"is safe and loved and appreciated and will be retired to their farm sometime soon where he will be retrained or re-homed.They have a lovely farm for their horses with lots of riding trails etc which the horses love.It was a relief and sooo nice to read that Ozzie's people are leading by example!Alex always tells us that we should not categorize ALL just because a FEW ARE BAD !!!

Isn't it refreshing to know that there are SOME at Mountaineer that "GET IT" ??!!! There's HOPE for ALL ???

Incidentally I also received a lovely photo of Ozzie and he looks sooooo happy! He has sparkly happy eyes just like our Champ.I understand he also has a few endearing idiosyncrasies like our beloved John Henry had!!!

One more thing...Ozzies people frequent our site so ShelleyA is CORRECT...MANNERS MANNERS MANNERS!!
WE never know who is HERE with US????

Have a wonderful day...I think Ozzie is racing somewhere today...I will pray that he comes home safely ....only a few more races and I'm sure he'll have earned his retirement!!!

HUGS and love..Thanks to the BBH for keeping an eye on things!!!

has anyone heard from Debbie at Mustang Hearts

###SusaninSaratoga

The Quarter Horse Association ....WHAT A BIG JOKE THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!! THEY CARE....ABOUT HORSES???
They are the biggest abusers of equine overpopulation on this planet!!!! IF they TRULY WANTED to be helpful ...they would set an example to their members and start educating members on breeding etc.!!! They would stop the ridiculous breeding incentives etc etc etc!!!

WHY would ANYONE listen to their perspective on anything equine???? They CLEARLY DO NOT HAVE A CLUE !! EDUCATION...EDUCATION...EDUCATION !!!!!

It is ALL I can do to hold my tongue right now where THEY ARE CONCERNED....so many things I COULD SAY!!!!

OFF MY SOAPBOX....

Did I mess that up???
It's Forever Together...time to wake up Maribel!! LOL No wait ...maybe it's time to SLEEP???LOL
Such a late night early morning thing happening here!!!

Joe at TB Friends

JOE FOR DUMMIES;;;;;;LIKE ME: LOL
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Sunday, July 27th...
A long day ahead, and the list of chores stretches all the way to Interstate 5. Renewed energy. Hard to explain, but the batteries are charged. Inspiration comes from a 7 year old, and from a 17 year old.

This has been a week of 19 hour work days, and sadness which comes from horses losing their homes. Watching families who are forced to give up their lifetime dreams. Ranch foreclosures is like the end of the world.

A person can get lost in the muck. All you see is dark clouds, yet the day is bright and sunny.

And then when you need it most, a 7 year old and a 17 year old remind you what is most important.

Pictures below on the top row explain this better than I ever can.

Top Left: Emma is 7, and at our front gate with her family Emma says she wrote me an e-mail many months ago. I replied, and now here she is with brothers and sisters and her mom Tammy. Emma tells me she has never ridden a horse. Say hello to Limo. While I am leading Emma and Limo around, Emma talks about her summer vacation. One more month until school starts. There was a day when she went to a water slide park. Three times Emma went down the big slide.

And then boom, just like that, a week of sadness is lifted. Imagine being a kid again. Long hot summer days. Swimming pools. Your first ride on a horse. Watching the calendar, knowing school starts soon, trying to make today better than yesterday. Imagine the freedom of choices.

Picture Below On The Top Right: This is Kelly, and we have talked on and off since Kelly was 15. Kelly is now 17, and horses are her passion.

Not to sound sappy, but when inspiration knocks you gotta open the door. From Kelly I learned how when you focus on horses, horses repay the favor. Kelly also taught me about time management.

I waste way too much time. Even on a 19 hour work day. I could do much better with my time management.

Focus on horses, and horses repay the favor. Earlier this week it was my pleasure to meet an older morgan mare. She was losing her home of 12 years. I thought I would throw her into the sight unseen pool. Lots of nice families accepting sight unseen horses into their homes. But this morgan mare has physical problems. She needs an extra two hundred dollars or so a month to take proper care of. Daily meds, daily special feeds, extensive farrier work. Her owner said we should just put her to sleep.

But then a lady in Vacaville phoned. She would like an older mare for her lonely older gelding. I told the lady about the morgan mare, and the monthly costs which come with her. The lady said okay, she would like to give it a try.

Well the morgan mare has fit in just fine with her new boyfriend. There is a neighbor girl who comes to groom and pass out treats. The morgan mare has never been so clean. She has been bathed and groomed five days in a row.

The neighbor girl adores the morgan mare. And she told the lady this is it, I finally figured out what I want to do with my life. I want my life to be with horses.

Yesterday the neighbor girl began her first day of employment with a riding academy in Davis. For now she can only work on weekends. A big Thank You to my friend Ryan who helped this girl find a job.

Focus on horses, and horses repay the favor.

A big Thank You to both Emma and Kelly for turning my week around.

Joe

THANK YOU JOE, FOR LIFTING ME UP TODAY.
xxoo:j
COURAGE

SIMPLY THE BEST....in that song somewhere Tina Turner sings a line..."it's stamped on my heart"

That's why we're ALL STILL HERE folks!!!

His LOVE is STILL WITH US and I personally think it will be FOREVER!!!

((((The Morgan Mare and her Boyfriend))))

Thanks, Jonna.

Maribel....Forever, yes. He certainly changed my life and the lost direction thereof.

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WE need homes for the horses at the New Jersey Rescue....we have a horse that is dead lame...read the db..please.

I am afraid the horse needs to be pts...but probably will have to be bought my the OLD MEAN MAN FRANK....he should not the right thing??????

there are horses...that need us..

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HOPEFULLY THE NEW BILL THAT WE WILL INTRODUCE MAY BE A WAKE UP CALL...CONGRESS....LISTEN TO US...IF WE CAN STOP TRANSPORTATION, STOP HORSE SLAUGHTERING, STOP BACK YARD BREEDING, EDUCATE...EDUCATE...EDUCATE...WE CAN WIN THIS WAR...AND SAVE THE AMERICAN ICON...THE MIGHTY, BEAUTIFUL HORSE..

GO PEPPER'S PRIDE!

Video link to 7/31 subcommittee hrg HR 6598

this is straight from the official Thomas.gov website

You can watch the subcommittee hrg on HR 6598 at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday July 31.

I can't get the hotlink to post here. Pls use this link to "watch video webcast"

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/calendar.html

and scroll down to here - there is a hotlink to watch

By Direction of the Chairman
07/31/2008
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
9:30 A.M. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Hearing on: H.R. 6598, the ""Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008" and H.R. 6597, the "Animal Cruelty Statistics Act of 2008"

Will Peppers Pride's race be on TV or web? Would love to watch . . .

Peppers Pride on point for run at history in Lincoln Handicap

PEPPERS PRIDE
Eugene O'Neill/Coady Photography
by Mike Curry

New Mexico-bred star Peppers Pride is on target for her shot at Thoroughbred racing history on Sunday, when she will try to set the modern North American record of 17 consecutive victories in the $55,000 Lincoln Handicap at Ruidoso Downs.

Trainer Joel Marr said the five-year-old Desert God mare breezed four furlongs in :52.20 on Monday at Ruidoso. The Joseph Allen homebred is unbeaten in 16 career starts.

“She breezed well,” Marr said. “We didn’t ask her to do too much. It wasn’t a stiff work. She did pretty much what we wanted her to do. The track was a little heavy and slow, and she galloped out afterwards really well and got something out of it. I think we’re ready to go.

“We had planned [to breeze her] earlier, but the track condition kept us from it.”

Marr said the only factor that could prevent Peppers Pride from contesting the Lincoln is track condition. She has made each of her 16 starts on tracks rated as fast.

Peppers Pride tied the record of 16 consecutive wins held by Citation, Cigar, Hallowed Dreams, and Mister Frisky with a two-length win in the Russell and Hellen Foutz Distaff Handicap on April 26 at Sun Ray Park. Marr said Peppers Pride’s will to win sets her apart from other horses he has trained.

“It’s her desire, she has a huge heart,” Marr said. “There have been times when it could have gone the other way. But she just finds whatever it is, whatever that thing is that great athletes possess, every time she has been able to find the finish line first. Her last out, a lot of horses would have given up after being bumped on the first turn, pushed ten wide, and falling ten lengths behind the leader. But she doesn’t know quit.”

Peppers Pride opened her five-year-old season with her second win in the Sydney Valentini Handicap at Sunland Park. She won the six-furlong Lincoln Handicap last year on the Zia Festival card. Peppers Pride was assigned high weight of 127 pounds for the Lincoln Handicap, conceding at least 11 pounds to her challengers.

Marr said Peppers Pride thoroughly enjoys her job and it shows when she hits the track.

“She’s very aggressive on the track. I wouldn’t say she’s hard to train, because she loves to train, but she’s also one that you have to train often and watch her,” he said. “She’s very well broken, she does everything right, and she’s professional, but she’s aggressive on the track. When she gets out there, she knows what it’s about and knows what she wants to do.”

A full sister to stakes winner Desert Pride, Peppers Pride is out of the stakes-placed Chili Pepper Pie mare Lady Pepper. Peppers Pride's sire, Desert God, is out of Blush with Pride, dam of Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour. She has amassed 12 stakes wins, all in races restricted to New Mexico-breds and $861,665 in purse earnings.

“Of course, when we started out that was not in the plan to break any kind of record or tie and record. It was not until after we won ten or so that anybody even mentioned it,” Marr said of equaling the record of Citation and Cigar. “With each subsequent race, it has been more and more pressure probably. It has definitely been fun, and I’m very grateful to have her. I never will have another one like her I’m sure. It’s also been a couple of years of stress.”

Mike Curry is a Thoroughbred Times TODAY editor

(((((((MargieinNM))))))))))))))

We're GLAD you're HERE!!!!! Mmmmmwaaaaaaaah!!!
YOU are a GOOD PERSON....you were hoof-selected by the "Great One" !! YOU are SPECIAL!!!
NEVER EVER FORGET THAT !!! YOU have a KIND and LOVING HEART and in todays that is VERY SPECIAL!!!

We're just one terrrrrifffffic FOB Famblee....there isn't any better....anywhere!!!!!

I still can't believe all it took on Derby Day was a glimpse of him on the TV screen and he had already "stamped" himself on my heart FOREVER!!

By Preakness time I was a totally dedicated FAN!!
AWWWWWE!!!!!!!!!! SO I guess it was love at first sight!!!! LOL He has NEVER let me down or disappointed ME........

"SIMPLY THE BEST"....

Dear Pepper's Pride, you will get your chance next week end. You are in my heart.

Darn Dolly!!!!! Half my windows leaked due to the rain last night. Mud everywhere. Lucky would not even do his du du this morning because of the slop.

I just got done kicking myself for an hour. For the SECOND time now my New Mexico Pick 3 Lottery numbers came in. I did not play this week due to meager funds. The winning number, which I usually play 6 days a week, was 488. Last month I didn't play one night and my numbers paid $160. Last night I would have won $500. I'm off now to buy this week's tickets. I don't care about my budget. I will continue to play 488. It seems to come in once a month.

That $660 would have bought 110 bales of hay in these parts. Or rescued 2 horses. I am so mad at myself.

Maribel.....This tribe IS SIMPLY THE BEST.

Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley was severely hit about an hour ago with massive hail, wind, etc., very sudden storm. Have seen quite a few storms in my day but nothing like this.
Praying, hoping all FOBs (two- and four-legged) in these parts are safe, communications still somewhat limited.
We are south of York and just north of the Mason-Dixon (Maryland) Line.
"Ms. Annie" (Mom) and I are fine. Just checked all the windows and no broken glass but there is about seven inches of walnut-sized hail on our porch roof and large sections of the yard are solid white with it. Now there is steam coming off the ice as it is also horridly humid here.
Neighbors have massive tree damage.
Just saw the tux kitty ("mystery kitty")who visits my flower gardens and she appears to be fine - I had seen her getting a drink just before the storm hit. Praying all pets and their peoples are safe.

Love to all, and prayers going out to all in need.

Love you, Barbaro, always!!

Hugs, Lou Ann

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And love to the entire Heavenly Herd as you know you take me to where angels walk, as our angel Dee says, "It is AFFIRMED!"

Holding paws, hooves, hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!

with love,
Lou Ann

Yes, I think "Simply The Best" sums up our boy. ###margie, I live about 200 miles from Ruidoso and would love to see Peppers Pride run. However, theres the gasoline problem. Also, since Chief had his stroke I dont like to leave him. Okay, so I baby him. He is spoiled rotten.

I'm back with lottery tickets for the upcoming week. I've learned my lesson.

I wish we lived closer to each other Sandra. We could find someone to watch my aging Lucky and your Chief, and split the gas and head to the track.

Hopes that everyone is OK in Pennsylvania.

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Sandra

IF I lived closer ....I would gladly come and enjoy the Chiefster for awhile !!!And Margie's Lucky too!
Just so the two of you could have some fun!Unfortunately I am VERY FAR away here in Canada!
BUT my heart is right there with y'all!!! ESP the Chiefster who incidentally is definitely worth every penny of his keep and then some.....

((((((((((((((Chief))))))))))))))))))))

From the New Jersey Rescue (yes; still going on!)

"Let's get the paint mare and sorrel 'pony' ON the trailer"

Focusing on rescuing these two sweeties for now; please, angels are you out there, help if you can!!!!

OK, this might seem pretty far "out there" but...heeeeere goes:

Is there any way that we might market horse-pucky? I am thinking that it is one of the best known rose fertilizers, so-o-o-o-o why not dry it and package it and market it...for charity horse causes...as official FOB Horse Pucky?

There is certainly plenty to go around. We might even get some famous trainers to donate from their barns, and market it by the names of the horses who "donated to the cause."

It's just a little seed of and idea, but, who knows, with the right kind of 'fertilizer,' perhaps a 'harvest' will come. Yes?

Your FOB Fren, O

hAY Fran,
is there a new thread now? thankfully the original was closed for posting. It was causing my brain to explode.

Haven't found the new one for those who remain at the lot :(

"God's Artistry In Rainbows"

From God's Loving Heart
The Most Beautiful Rainbow Glowing Barbaro
His Wings Of Love
Eight Belles God's Glowing Angel
Her Wings Of Love
Angel Erin God's Precious Angel In The Sky
Her Wings Of Love Glowing In Rainbows
The Glowing Sunshine
The Stars In The Sky
So, So So Special Wishes
Our Angel Horses
Nicanor
God's Divine Hope
Your Wings Of Love In Rainbows
God's Light Of Love Shining On You
Lentanor
God's Glowing Angel
Your Wings Of Love In Rainbows
Glowing Angels
Glowing Wings
Glowing Rainbows
Way To Oz
God's Glowing Rainbow
God's Love For You
Glowing
Barbaro's Famblee Of So, So So Beautiful Angels
Your Angelic Hearts Of Love
Your Wings Of Love Glowing In Rainbows
Angel Lou Ann An Angel Of Love
Your So, So So Beautiful Heart
Angel Maribel An Angel Of Love
Your Wings Of Love Glowing
Angel Alex God's Beautiful Angel On This Earth
All That You Do Means So A Lot
Barbaro's Halo Is Glowing So, So So Beautifully
All The Colors Of The Rainbow
The Circle Of Love
In Hearts
In Roses
In Halos
In Wings
In Rainbows
The Most Beautiful Rainbow Angel Barbaro
The Circle Of Angels
Barbaro's Angels
The Brennan Famblee
Angel Edgar
Our Angel Horses
You Are The Inspiration
God's Love For You
God's Divine Blessings
The Rainbow Of God's Artists
Barbaro Angels
Your Canvas Of Dreams
Ocean Colors
Bringing Divine Joy
Glowing..........

8.........Halos.........Two Hearts..........
Connected In Love.........Divine Inspiration.....
...

Affirmed Rainbows..........
Sacred Prayers.........
God's Angels..........

Affirmed Prayers.........
God And The Angels Are With You.........
Jesus.........
Angel Barbaro.........
Angel Eight Belles.........
Angel Erin.........
Angel Windchill..........
Angel Secretariat.........
Angel Seattle Slew.........
Angel Ruffian.........
Angel Cuz...........
Angel Vindication..........
Angel Vinstar..........
Barbaro's Angel Frens Are With You..........
Angel LITF Is Lifting You Up In Halos.........
Their Wings Of Love.........
Their Rainbows Of Love Are Shining On You........
God's Glowing Angels..........
Footprints In The Sand.........

Affirmed Songs.........
Wind Beneath My Wings..........
Angels Among Us.........
Over The Rainbow........

Affirmed Song........
We Are The Champions.......

Affirmed

Pennsylvania reporting back in . . . .

PADME, we just heard that Chester County is under alert so we are so hoping you and all FOBs (two- and four-legged)down that way are safe. Prayers and more prayers on the way . . . .

The sun is back out hotter than all get-out and we still have PILES of ice laying around, it's really weird.

More of the squirrel family, and "Fred", the rabbit are back out. Most all vegetation is in shreds, including a large field of corn just near our house. Still praying all the animals are safe.

Love to all,
always, Lou Ann

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Cheryl,

Still the same thread for a couple more babies to get saved. I believe once, God willing, they are safe, a new thread will start for the 4(?) new ones, on the assumption that (hopefully, please God) they may have more time.

Thank you, Cheryl, and thank you everyone for hanging in on this one!

Please don't give up! Lives ARE being saved. Pix are up now on the board. Molly Mule is gorgeous!

Thanks, Fran I absolutely love the mule. She is beautiful :)

http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10013536

INSIDIOUS pro-slaughter piece, needs comments.

(Thanks Jo Diebel, Angel Acres, who emailed about this.)

(Comment Queen - where are you? And can somebody please bluelink!)

Aw shucks, just saw that Peppers Pride's big day has been postponed. Thanks for the heads-up, Alex.

Note - that proslaughter piece I just posted the URL for, is saying, DoGooders are depriving US poor of horsemeat - seriously!

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Dear Frens, Please forgive this deviation from our main topics here on the comments board. But, I am wondering if anyone might be able to answer some non horse-related questions for me.

As many of you already know, last August I discovered that my husband of 24 years, was in an adulterous relationship with another woman. So, in September, I filed for divorce.

My divorce is going forward very slowly. It is quite a tangled mess. I am most perplexed, however, by the fact that I am in the hole to the tune of several thousand dollars to my attorney, and I have yet to see the judge.

I have sent lots on information, to my attorney, I have gone to the courthouse on four separate occasions. His office has twice initiated motions-to-enforce, which my husband simply walked away from.

We attended a mediation session, but my husband and I both agreed that the $1300 process was to expensive, and an exercise in futility. We were supposed to attend a settlement hearing, but, on the day of the hearing, my attorney simply left me waiting in the hallway while he and my husband's attorney met in private. Then he came out and strongly suggested arbitration. We took a 5 minute walk from the courthouse to his office, and in that 5 minutes, I was given to believe that arbitration would be the best way to go. (My attorney wants to get this cleared from his desk ASAP).

Now I find out that the arbitration attorney's fee is $300 per hour...and this includes the time spent at reviewing the briefs, as well as actual session time. Also, the arbitrator's decision is more binding that would be a judge's decision.

This does not feel right to me. Nearly a year has passed since I filed, and all I am doing is running up fees to pay three separate attorneys.

Please does anyone know anything about how this is SUPPOSED to work? I don't know what to do. I have not yet signed the OK to go to arbitration, but last Friday, I received a notice from my attorney, saying that the judge has ordered arbitration in lieu of a trial. I am not at all sure if my attorney is doing right by me, or if I have put myself into a financial hole just to line his pockets...I am very afraid, and am all alone in this.

Please e-mail me, or call. I need help.

Thanks, Your FOB Fren, O

Hay, Lou Ann!!!

Skies are clearing but am not totally sure the storm system is gone...saw the forecast for tonight and there are more storms forecast...but for now the girls and I are fine...am watching "The Two Towers" and then will keep on getting a press release ready.

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I met a local author last week and he gave me a wonderful book about how authors can market their books...he has written 11 of them and he knows whereof he speaks...he has all kinds of resources listed and gives examples of press releases and other resources...if anybody wants to know more about him or his website, go to www.mowday.com. His name is Bruce Mowday and he and his wife live in the area. He's kind of a mentor for me and I am blessed to have met him (in the post office - of all places...).

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Don't know where the storm system is now...prayers for all those in its path...and prayers for the flooding in Ruidoso.

Healing, Love, Peace
ONS, OMPH
Padme

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Otherlyn
My lawyers fees were $600per hour and a retainer of $5000......
Perhaps our CJ has some clues for you or SusanE????

I am going out for dinner with Auntie but please leave your telephone number on my email???

I'll phone when I get back??It won't be too late.Auntie can't stay up late anymore....

((((((((((Otherlyn))))))))))))

STRATEGY FOR MONDAY JULY 28

Many of you have contacted us with your concerns about strategy being posted on this board. We think you may be confused. All personal and sensitive messages are conveyed through private email via state groups and other groups. Many of you may not realize that if you are not involved with one of these email groups.

Our announcement last week was done in conjunction with HSUS and never revealed any information that was not meant to be passed on. Actually, if you paid attention, you would have noticed that details of the Bill were posted by someone else while we were still waiting for approval. For those of you who think we are giving the opposition a “heads up”…..Their people are camped in DC and know what’s going on before any of us!!

We do NOTHING without it being carefully thought out and discussed with the appropriate people who give us direction. While we appreciate your feedback, a few of you have been rude and thoughtless with your comments to us. Some even accusing us of not wanting the legislation to pass!! We will continue to do what we’re asked to get this legislation passed and to save our horses. However, we will not continue to take abuse.

The strategy for this week will be to