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Caroline Howe, a lifetime equine enthusiast who competes in the hunter/jumper discipline, is the founder and executive director of the North Carolina-based Horse Welfare Collective. She created the non-profit organization--which she operates by herself--in 2021 to bring transparency to the American horse slaughter industry. Recent events--such as last week's news out of Florida involving the alleged slaughter of a Thoroughbred that was captured on a hidden camera--put TDN in touch with the Horse Welfare Collective. In a half-hour phone interview with TDN on July 29, Howe detailed what she is...

The Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation (TERF) will award the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) $5,000 to be used for educational purposes. The TRF, whose mission is to rescue ex-racehorses, no longer able to compete at the racetrack, from neglect, abuse, and slaughter, collaborates with correctional facilities in eight states to provide vocational training to inmates who, in turn, care for horses that are not suitable for second athletic careers. TRF will use the funds to implement the Second Chances Farm Groom Elite (SCGE) Vocational program at all TRF Second Chance...

Ellis Park plans to honor Marvin Prado and other backstretch workers involved in rescuing six racehorses and one stable pony during a fire in the track's receiving barn last Sunday. They hope to do so during this weekend's races, contingent on the availability of Prado, whose daughter was born two months premature the day after the fire and is still hospitalized. The barn was engulfed in flames in a matter of 20 minutes and those on the scene say the man of the moment was Prado, with assistance from fellow...