from the Standardbred Retirement Foundation
Millstone Township, NJ — The Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s 12 Days of Giving campaign is in full swing. Please be a hero during the holidays by helping a horse in need, gifts are tax-deductible.
1. Senior feed for a month for one of the 93 very golden oldies – $125 each. Thank you Cheryl Paolillo for feeding one of our oldies.
2. Fill the hayloft for a month for the fillies and mares at the N.J. location – $850.
3. Sponsor one for worming and a pedicure for $35 a month in 2018.
4. Fill the hayloft for one month for the geldings that happily guard the fillies and mares – $1,200.
5. Retire one to your farm, priceless.
6. Rabies vaccine for the 28 horses at the N.J. main leased farm to protect them as well as protecting the staff – $560.
7. This is a biggie, but with the tremendous growth at SRF new software is very much needed to track the more than 300 under its expense and care; manage their specific medical needs, arrange for farrier, dental, worming, veterinary care, quarantine, training, shipping, and more, and to follow-up all those adopted since 1989 – $9,000.
8. An Ipad for on-call staff managing weekend and evening emergencies in order to access important horse information from SRF’s database – $329.
9. Transportation and quarantine for a horse from the kill pen to safety – $500.
10. Rehabilitate one from the kill pen until spring – $1,200.
11. Become SRF’s special sponsor for the Elitlopp fund raising trip in May – $4,000.
12. Hay racks, they save money in the long term as they keep from wasting hay – $249 each. Thank you Kathy and Matt Pickup for donating three Hay racks.
The generosity of donors is so appreciated, and if a wish is granted as a holiday gift to a friend or relative, SRF will package a special thank you to you and your recipient.
Visit many of the 300 horses on SRF’s website and reminisce with some you may recall from their glory days on the oval such as Positive Press, Sea It Again, Hopeful N, Ralph Hanover, Funtime Filly, and others.
To help our list click here or to make a tax deductible gift please contact Tammy at 732.446.4422; visit SRF’s website at www.AdoptaHorse.org/donate (please make a note in your payment); or mail to SRF, 353 Sweetmans Lane, Millstone Twp., NJ.
SRF is Different:
- Is the largest Standardbred adoption program in the U.S.
- Helps Standardbreds exclusively, young, aged, injured, neglected, or abused.
- Is feeding and caring for more than 300 trotters and pacers.
- Is providing lifetime homes for more than 150 retirees and provides lifetime follow-up for every adopted horse, never to be at risk again.