from the Standardbred Retirement Foundation
Millstone Township, NJ — Just two days left for the Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s 12 Days of Giving campaign and hope remains especially for the last three wishes to help the horses in need.
A gift has been received to help one in a kill pen to move to safety and for quarantine, but most often these horses need time to rehabilitate and become whole again. This important gift remains unchecked on the list along with retiring one to a loving home for life; and help for a redesigned database to track 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. Please make a tax-deductible gift and help SRF start 2018 off on the right “track.”
1. Senior feed for a month for one of the 93 very golden oldies – $125 each. Thank you Cheryl Paolillo, Monica Bencal and Tracey Try 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 and Muscara Racing for filling the hayloft.
3. Sponsor one for worming and a pedicure for $35 a month in 2018. Thank you 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 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.
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 – $1,200.
11. Become SRF’s special sponsor for the Elitlopp fund raising 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.
Please grant a needed wish or part of one. Contact Tammy at 732.446.4422, or email SrfHorsesandKids@gmail.com. See the list and make your giving easy; visit our website or contact Tammy at 732.442.4422 to make a tax-deductible donation.
On behalf of all of us at SRF, we would like to wish a happy holiday season.
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.