Kentucky Horse Park Horse Adoption Fair
Posted on July 10, 2008
The Kentucky Horse Park held the John Henry Memorial Equine Horse Adoption Fair recently. For those that missed it, this event was partly sponsored by the Kentucky Horse Council and began at 6:00 pm on June 25. It had approximately 18 horses that were available for adoption. This is something that is actually becoming quite important as hay, and fuel prices continue to increase, there are a lot of horses that farm owners simply can no longer afford to take care of. And now that the ban on horse slaughter has been put in place, these horses are basically placed in a very bad situation. The owner can’t afford to take care of them, they can’t be slaughtered, so they just end up becoming neglected. In other cases, it was horses that actually were abused by their owners, but a great many were just the family horse that the family was enduring some sort of hardship and wasn’t able to take care of their animal. Events like this help those that are able and willing, to provide a new home for their equine friends.
Some of the other activities at the horse adoption fair included a silent auction, door prizes for attendees, as well as food. All auction proceeds were donated to the Save Our Horses effort. The event was free for anyone wanting to attend and a lot of persons that weren’t necessarily horse lovers were able to come out and have a good time for a good cause.
This event will be held annually at the Kentucky Horse Park and is important to everyone in Kentucky regardless if you own horses or not because horses help fuel the local economies. Everyone in the entire state have benefited from horses being a part of Kentucky’s heritage. The money pours into the state from everything related to horses including the creation of jobs (farriers, feed stores, tack shops, farm workers, etc) and additional tax base from the large horse farms in KY.
If you were unable to attend this years fair, keep an eye out for it next year sometime around May or June. Its a very worthwhile event and one that we would encourage to make an effort to attend.
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