from the Standardbred Retirement Foundation
Millstone Township, NJ — Since our posting just two hours ago, wonderful gifts have been received for the last day of Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s 12 Days of Giving campaign.
Three wishes remain, but only partial for two. Number five is for immediate help to one horse for rehabilitation after the lack of care and kindness in a kill pen and that wish has a wonderful partial gift.
Retiring to pasture because the physical stress of racing on a horse’s legs and/or age has adopters passing over time and time again is not yet granted.
Last is number 10, and two new friends have granted gifts towards this expensive need, it is SRF’s database software which has not been updated in about 15 years, and SRF has grown so much. It tracks 3,000 adoptions; the care for more than 300 under SRF’s expense; adopter applications; boarding facilities for SRF’s horses; quarantined horses; farrier, dental, worming, vaccination schedules; transportation; needed medical treatment; training information and more.
Additional help for each wish is also greatly appreciated. How about granting a wish as a holiday gift.
Please grant a needed wish or part of one, make a tax-deductible gift and help SRF start 2018 off on the right track. Contact Cathy at 732.446.4422 through 5 p.m. and 732.616.8836 after 5 p.m, or email us at SRFHorsesandKids@gmail.com, or see the list and make your giving easy; visit our website to make a tax-deductible donation. Thank you to all who helped and to those ready to grant a hug to a horse.
On behalf of all of us at SRF, we would like to wish a happy holiday season, and all the best of luck in the new year.
1. Senior feed for a month for one of the 93 very golden oldies – $125 each. Thank you Cheryl Paolillo, Monica Bencal, Tracey Troy and Frank Baldachino for help feeding our golden oldies.
2. Fill the hayloft for a month for the fillies and mares at the N.J. location – $850. Thank you Robert Muscara, Muscara Racing and David Van Wart for filling the hayloft.
3. Sponsor one for worming and a pedicure for $35 a month in 2018. Thank you Wendy Jennes, Eileen Gersuk-Byrd, and Maureen Fredricks for sponsoring a horse.
4. Fill the hayloft for one month for the geldings that happily guard the fillies and mares – $1,200. Thank you Paul Bordagno for filling the hayloft.
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 – $20 each or $560 for all. Thank you Milena Galeva (six horses) and Allison Hudock (five horses) for vaccinating six horses.
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. Thank you Jean Bokman for $1,000 as a gift to her nephews, GRJ Partners for $1,000, Barry Rubenstein for $1,000 and Jeff Stacy for $500 towards new software.
8. An iPad for on-call staff managing weekend and evening emergencies in order to access important horse information from SRF’s database – $329. Thank you Donna Ulrich and John Celli for donating iPads for our on-call staff.
9. Transportation and quarantine for a horse from the kill pen to safety – $500. Thank you Maurice Chodash for saving a horse’s life.
10. Rehabilitate one from the kill pen until spring – $,1200. Thank you to an anonymous donor for saving a horse’s life.
11. Become SRF’s special sponsor for the Elitlopp fundraising trip in May – $4,000. Thank you Marc and Marcia Goldberg for sponsoring our fundraiser.
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, Phyllis and Joe Porrell for donating one hay rack, and John Celli for donating two hay racks.
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.