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@RepoleStable @PatCummingsNTA @jockeyclub It is a shame that the Jockey Club is not meeting Mike Repole at least half way when he has given them every opportunity to. Sometimes you have no other choice when being ignored but to put the boxing gloves on and go in the ring. 🥊🥊

After @PatCummingsNTA and I watched Everett Dobson talk about “unity” and “collaboration” at the HBPA Conference, I said to Pat… you know what, let’s give this one last real shot. So we did. I had my attorneys send a letter to the @jockeyclub attorneys. Not complicated. Sit down. One room. One full day. Let’s put everything on the table and actually fix this sport. We gave them 48 hours to respond. It’s now been over a week. Crickets. 🦗 No response. No respect. No interest. Sadly, it’s exactly what I expected. Here’s what we offered… All the Stewards. Jim Gagliano. Me. Pat Cummings. Aron Wellman. And a real group of industry leaders across every part of the sport… track operators, trainers, aftercare, breeders, etc. One full day. No hiding. No excuses. No bullshit. If all that talk about “unity” meant anything…this is an automatic yes. But it’s not. Because they don’t want unity. They don’t want collaboration. They don’t want transparency. They want control. They want silence. They want the same broken system that’s been dragging this sport down for decades. So let me be crystal clear… This was it. The last good faith effort. They ignored it. Now we move forward…and we’re going on offense at a whole different level. If there’s any real media left in this sport that actually gives a damn, ask the @jockeyclub why they’re afraid to sit in a room and answer real questions from real people??? This has been going on for 3+ years. I’m not going anywhere. This fight is for all of us. What do you think???

It is a shame that the Jockey Club is not meeting Mike Repole at least half way when he has given them every opportunity to. Sometimes you have no other choice when being ignored but to put the boxing gloves on and go in the ring. 🥊🥊

🙏❤️‍🩹🙏❤️‍🩹Update! Remember Goose that we rescued from the Colorado lot in February? He is still in quarantine but he is doing better. He is recovering from an upper respiratory infection. This poor senior boy has multiple melanomas so with his age and the melanomas we don't know how long his long term will be. As long as he is eating and acting comfortable he will continue to march on. Such a kind old boy. He will be going to JWE after quarantine.🙏❤️‍🩹🙏❤️‍🩹

John Stettin is by far the best writer out there and not afraid to publish the truth about the real issues. As an organization that has been helping and rescuing thoroughbreds from the slaughter pipeline for years, we can tell you how incredibly tough it is with no industry support or participation to help thoroughbreds in this situation. It is a disgrace when thoroughbreds keep ending up at feedlots and there is total silence from the Jockey Club, NTRA, Breeders Cup and many others industry leaders. As president of our organization and a former owner/trainer and someone who grew up on the racetrack, I love and respect thoroughbreds. Anyone in the business who does not respect a thoroughbred should not be in it in our opinion. None of the Powers that Be in the industry like the Jockey Club, Breeders Cup, NTRA, etc would even have a job if it were not for the horses. All of us owe the horses everything. Some of us have shown our respect, dedication and devotion for thoroughbreds with our sweat, worry, tears, long hours, exhaustion & begging for funds to save thoroughbreds when they are in trouble. In addition, to advocating for change for the horses for years such as a creating a National Thoroughbred Tracking Database, Emergency Fund, programs to circumvent thoroughbreds, especially senior broodmares from ending up in the pipeline, more sanctuary farms, etc. Programs that cover all thoroughbreds not just the ones that can go in to a second career. They all cannot have a second career and to think a second career is the ONLY answer to aftercare is unrealistic. So many things should have been done over the years to protect the horses better and could still be done but will not happen as long as the Jockey Club keeps burying their head in the sand and think they already have it covered when they really don't. Not even close. @PastTheWire @jockeyclub @NTRA @LightUpRacing @RepoleStable @PatCummingsNTA @EponaInitiative @theTDN @AronWellman7 @ThoroughbredRA @westlakeracing

🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹Prayers for healing for baby Cajun. His hernia surgery went well but he is experiencing some facial paralysis after the surgery. Yesterday he received PEMF therapy. He is such a sweet and tough little bird. Hasty's Haven is doing all they can for him. 🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

👉Please share for this lady. Any of us would want someone to do the same for us if we were in her shoes.

🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘Poster 03-17-26. Sadly two critically urgent TB's at the TX lot and we cannot help them. 👉Unfortunately, we have to put a moratorium in place due to so many thoroughbreds currently in quarantine, extended quarantine board and high vet bills. It should not be this way that organizations have to beg for funds to save thoroughbreds lives and then absorb the majority of costs especially when unforeseen illness hits and extra costs. There are no industry Emergency Fund for these horses or any thoroughbreds that end up in the slaughter pipeline. There are no programs put in place to circumvent them ending up there in the first place. The industry has failed them plain and simple. Please share the poster for these horses and hopefully some other organizations will step up for them. TB mare Gospel Lucille just came in to the OK lot and this is the second time she has been there in a year and she is lame. It is traumatic enough for a thoroughbred to end up at a lot once but twice. She and the others need help. 🙏🙏🙏 @jockeyclub @NTRA @BreedersCup @theTDN @LightUpRacing @RepoleStable @PatCummingsNTA @PastTheWire @EponaInitiative

@patriot4ever10 Yes, visitors are allowed every Saturday at Mill Creek Farm, Retirement Home for Horses in Alachua, FL where Technical Bargain and The Devil is Mine will eventually be going after their quarantine is completed.

@RACEFund Is this sanctuary near central Florida a d would they be allowed to have visitor once in awhile??? God bless you both… your lives matter to all of us who want reform in this sad corrupt industry.,, I pray hard everyday the good Lord will end the suffering of the helpless souls🙏

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹👉Update! Technical Bargain and The Devil is Mine are doing good in quarantine so far. Next week they will be getting their vet maintenance done. They are both so sweet. Both 20 years old and previously cast in to the cheap auction route and then ended up in the slaughter pipeline. This mindset that it is ok to dispose of senior mares this way has got to stop. They deserve so much better and protection. Soon they will be going to their forever sanctuary home in FL where they will be protected. 🙏🙏❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

❤❤ Update! Royal Flush Babe aka Babe now named Margaret at This Old Horse, Inc.. She is doing well and already has a fan club. Such a sweet pretty girl and so deserving. So happy for you Babe. ❤

🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘👉Poster 03-14-26. A few thoroughbreds were sold but for others the clock is still ticking. No industry emergency funds to help them. An emaciated TB mare named Congaree'sgirl (OK) just came in to the OK lot in poor shape. Who is going to help her and the rest? Who is going to step up for them? Who will make sure they are safe? Thoroughbred industry where are you when these horses need help? @jockeyclub @NTRA @LightUpRacing @BreedersCup @theTDN @RepoleStable @PatCummingsNTA @AnitaMotion @EponaInitiative @ThoroughbredRA

A $100 MILLION RESERVE. A $355 CHARITY. BREEDERS’ CUP PART 2: THE CHARITY REPOST THIS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Yesterday we looked at Breeders’ Cup Limited’s $100+ million investment portfolio. Today we look at Breeders’ Cup Charities. This is the nonprofit that represents the Breeders’ Cup’s charitable and industry support efforts. The numbers come directly from IRS Form 990 filings. Over the past decade, Breeders’ Cup Charities has operated on a remarkably small scale. Total annual revenue reported: 2015 — $93,466 2016 — $132,406 2017 — $125,300 2018 — $120,800 2019 — $100,800 2020 — $183,685 2021 — $69,236 2022 — $64,900 2023 — $113,402 2024 — $355 Yes. You read that correctly. $355 in total revenue reported in 2024 (SEE 2024 FORM 990 PHOTO BELOW) Not $355 thousand. Three hundred and fifty-five dollars. For perspective, that might not even cover a lunch meeting at the Breeders’ Cup and Jockey Club offices at 250 Park Avenue in New York. @BreedersCup also charges upwards of $2,000 per seat for premium seating at its championship event. Yet in 2024 the organization’s charitable arm reported just $355 in total contributions. In other words: Breeders’ Cup Limited couldn’t even contribute the revenue from one seat to its own charity. Meanwhile Breeders’ Cup Limited at that time sat on more than $100 million in liquid investments. Now look at the grants distributed. 2015 — $99,490 2016 — $124,400 2017 — $101,600 2018 — $119,200 2019 — $100,400 2020 — $168,228 2021 — $52,450 2022 — $75,685 2023 — $136,639 2024 — $74,500 These charities do important work. No one disputes that. The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. The Racetrack Chaplaincy. The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. Breeders’ Cup Charities also recently announced more than $650,000 in charitable donations supporting many of these same organizations. Every dollar helps. But it raises another fair question. How much of that funding came directly from Breeders’ Cup executives themselves? And how much compensation have those same executives received from Breeders’ Cup Limited over the past decade? Here is the answer... Public filings show Breeders’ Cup executives have received approximately $23.5 million in compensation from 2015 through 2024. If just 2% of that compensation had been donated to Breeders’ Cup Charities, it would total roughly $470,000. Surely if executives had personally stepped up in a meaningful way, the industry would have heard about it. I hope they did and if so they should say so. Transparency on those numbers would help the industry better understand who is actually funding the sport’s charitable efforts. But the larger issue remains scale. Breeders’ Cup Charities largely distributes money raised from donors, fundraising events and merchandise programs, not directly from the $100+ million balance sheet of Breeders’ Cup Limited itself. In other words: Much of the money being distributed is other people’s money, not Breeders’ Cup’s. Another important detail from the IRS filings. Breeders’ Cup Charities files the short-form 990-EZ, a return typically used by nonprofits with relatively small financial activity. That alone tells you something about the scale. The charitable arm of the sport’s world championship event is operating at a level typically associated with small local nonprofits. Maybe the focus was elsewhere. In 2021 and 2022 Breeders’ Cup provided approximately $2.3 million in loans to HISA @hisa_us Meanwhile in 2024 Breeders’ Cup Charities reported just $355 in revenue, despite Breeders’ Cup Limited holding over $100 million in invested assets. That contrast speaks for itself. The reality is the sport already knows where meaningful capital is needed. Industry leaders have repeatedly said that aftercare infrastructure alone requires roughly $20 million in seed funding to properly support retirement programs, retraining facilities and long-term care. That is a solvable problem. Especially for an organization sitting on more than $100 million in invested assets. Meanwhile the industry is struggling to fund: • general aftercare and aftercare infrastructure • racetrack worker support • jockey safety programs • racing jurisdictions fighting to survive When the sport’s flagship event clearly has the financial capacity to do far more. Yesterday’s question was simple: When does the money start coming back to the industry that created the $100 million gold mine? Tomorrow we ask the final question. If the Breeders’ Cup has the capital… why isn’t it being deployed to grow racing? Stay tuned.

And on top of this the Breeders Cup, Jockey Club and many other industry organizations have contributed nothing to help the countless thoroughbreds that end up in the slaughter pipeline each year. They appear to be just fine with our organization and others begging the public to help us save thoroughbreds from a brutal death.

👉Update! We checked with the feedlot this morning and they informed us that El Poco Diablo has sold. We do not know to who but we hope it was to someone that will do right by him. He is a grand old fella and deserves to live out his days in safety. We pray that will happen. 🙏🙏 Thank you.

@GodCanAndWil @sullivanms @KyHBPA @LightUpRacing @theTDN @KateMaddenSC Sent Brandywine Farm a message but no response yet. They have not helped in the past but hope they surprise us this time. 🤔

@sullivanms @RACEFund @KyHBPA @LightUpRacing @theTDN @KateMaddenSC ^^ Breeders are in Paris Kentucky @racefund you can call them if you'd like...XOXO

🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘URGENT! We just found out about this senior TB gelding El Poco Diablo (KY) is at the Wisconsin lot and his deadline is tomorrow Friday at noon. Does anyone know his past connections or someone that can help him ASAP? @KyHBPA @LightUpRacing @theTDN @KateMaddenSC @EponaInitiative @PatCummingsNTA @GulfstreamPark @keenelandracing @EllisParkRacing @TurfwayPark