Millstone Township, NJ – 12/16/17 – The Standardbred Retirement Foundation's 12 Days of Giving campaign is in the last six days. Please become a hero this holiday season by helping a harness racing horse in need, partial gifts are just as precious, and gifts are tax-deductible:
1. Senior feed for a month for 1 of the 93 very golden oldies – $125 each.
Thank you Cheryl Paolillo and Monica Bencal for help feeding our golden oldies.
2. Fill the hayloft for a month for the fillies and mares at the NJ location – $850.
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 1 month for the geldings that happily guard the fillies and mares – $1200.
5. Retire one to your farm, priceless.
6. Rabies vaccine for the 28 horses at the NJ 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.
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.
10. Rehabilitate one from the kill pen till spring – $1200.
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 & Matt Pickupfor donating (3) Hay racks,
Phyllis & Joe Porrell for donating (1) hay rack, and
John Celli for donating (2) 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 AdoptaHorse.org/donate please make a note in your payment; or mail to SRF, 353 Sweetmans La., 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 lifetimefollow-up for every adopted horse, never to be at risk again.
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Chrominator brightens the season in this photo with his latest adopter. Thanks to SRF's model follow-up program, so no SRF horse will ever be at risk again, he is on his third home and it appears to be his lucky last. The handsome son of Pacific Rocket had earnings of $143,000.
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Sea It Again, son of Seahawk Hanover now 30 years old-retired with SRF.
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Lake Club, the 22 year old son of Artsplace, is still hoping for a home in spite of his age and a few ouchy days romping the fields.
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Desist Hanover, son of No Nukes, a big boy at 16.2 and just 15 years old is only comfortable as a pasture puff and has been eating grass with SRF since 2006.
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Osmosis, son of Badlands, is just 15 with earnings of $102,000 and has the company of Desist Hanover in the field. He has been with SRF since 2002.
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Duke of Earl, a son of Earl, now 20 years old with more than a quarter of a million earned back in the late 90s.
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Standardbred Retirement Foundation, 353 Sweetmans Lane, Suite 101, Millstone Twp., NJ 08535