Adrienne Hall

@GhostofSwiftH Unfortunately you have to do constant follow up with them until confirmed or this shit happens.

This is fucked but why would ship horse to Florida or have people to travel to Florida when waiting for a license

This kind of feature is priceless for promoting this sport and the @jockeyclub better figure out how to replicate this kind of broadcast content. You can't get more inside the sport than with @andie_biancone

Bathtime for the new #DubaiWorldCup winner, MAGNITUDE! 🚿 #DWC26

27/03/2009 fue sacrificado ALYSHEBA (25 años) al sufrir un proceso degenerativo debido a su avanzada edad. Estaba viviendo en el Kentucky Horse Park, tras una campaña poco exitosa como semental en USA y Arabia Saudita.

Wow

@TheBridgeSanct1 Thank you 👏

The truth is we should all be outraged when a single horse, let alone a broodmare, ends up in the slaughter pipeline. And we need to stop giving these people passes on the “I gave her to a guy as a riding horse” story. No 21-year-old mare who spent 15 years having 10 babies needs a third career.

@Steve_Byk @52ShadesOfHay @wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson Understandable. At least you got to the bottom of it.

@ajhall44 @52ShadesOfHay @wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson Appreciate the comment Adrienne. Need to be sure about that portion of the chain of custody before publicly addressing the culpable. As for the ever-present outrage machine, it's a wholly fruitless exercise that drags everyone down ~ and it irks me to no end.

Ginger Brew is safe & headed to Michigan at Beyond the Roses Equine. Sounds like there is plenty more to this story & we could have jumped to conclusions a little too quickly.

@Steve_Byk @52ShadesOfHay @wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson Thank you for this update and I respect you Steve, but instead of chastising the people who were “outraged” maybe divert that attention and publicly name whoever these real “buyers” were so that nobody will ever be duped into selling or giving them a horse again.

@52ShadesOfHay @ajhall44 @wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson stevebyk.com/broadcast/thur…

@52ShadesOfHay @wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson I don’t think it’s online yet but this is his link. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-…

@wraith_W13 @kaitlinebenson Anyone have a link for this podcast?

@Dachelle @kaitlinebenson @xBaystater Sad. Maybe @raypaulick can do a follow up with the Collinsworth since they last spoke.

@kaitlinebenson @xBaystater @ajhall44 Diving down a FB rabbit hole for their farm I found out Mr. Speaker apparently died a few days ago.

This is disgusting. Obviously this organization was using a Champion mare in their hands to make a quick buck but who threw out Ginger Brew like yesterday's trash?😔 All thoroughbreds deserve a soft place to land after they retire from racing & breeding.

@kaitlinebenson Yes and the @jockeyclub needs to investigate.

@ajhall44 They deserve to be blasted.

@kaitlinebenson paulickreport.com/news/bloodstoc…

Whoever put her in this situation deserves to be held accountable. Publicly.

@MargaretDammit @Hinesite These guys were the last known owners of both horses in recent years so they should know. paulickreport.com/news/bloodstoc…

@ajhall44 @Hinesite Mr. speaker was allegedly sold but to who nobody knows.

Rant alert…

This is Ginger Brew as a racehorse and this is Ginger Brew standing in a Texas kill pen this week. 

Ginger Brew is a Sovereign Award winner, multiple stakes winner and graded stakes-placed, second in the Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most prestigious race. Gulfstream Park even named a stakes after her. In retirement she had a bunch of babies by the best stallions in the game at first — Medaglia d’Oro, Giant’s Causeway, Awesome Again, Bernardini, Ghostzapper. When she failed to reproduce a foal to do much on the track, she was bred to some more “average” sires and then sold off by her billionaire owner/breeder at age 16 for a measly $90,000, about ten times less than what she earned for them. Considering it all, it’s fair to call it a dump job.

This is a classic example proving that any class of broodmare — from blue bloods to the more “average” pedigree — can be dumped into the slaughter pipeline. And are.

As egregious as Ginger Brew’s situation was, that’s not the kicker. See, Ginger Brew was never in danger of actually being shipped. 

The people who normally turn away from the plight of the broodmares in the pipeline had their crosshairs focused squarely on saving this mare because, well, she has some high-profile connections (money?) and a big name with a bigger race record. It mattered not that she probably won’t have a third career, the people who value only second career types were more focused on her big name than their stance on this topic.

(And I am not at all knocking the org who will give her safety for the rest of her life. They have and do step up for the slaughter pipeline mares when they can and I know lost one they pulled recently when she couldn’t overcome the neglect she suffered while on earth.) But for some reason I cannot comprehend why Ginger Brew’s life mattered more than the dozens we in the @ThoroughbredRA find and network for every week, many of which we cannot save due to lack of funding and resources who disappear into the abyss and/or across the border to a Mexican slaughterhouse.

I don’t know all of the details about this “save” but I do know enough to say I’m absolutely disgusted. For some twisted and arrogant reasons, to those in charge of aftercare (and I *know* their hands are all up in this deal) this mare’s life mattered more than the others and it’s appalling. 

This is why “aftercare” needs a complete overhaul. Anyone who thinks this is ok should be ashamed of themselves.

I am very grateful Ginger Brew is safe tonight but am very worried about the ones who weren’t so lucky and were left behind. Their lives matter, too.

@Hinesite @MargaretDammit

@MargaretDammit It's pretty simple. Find out who her last owner was and suspend them for life. And hold them accountable for animal cruelty.

Treacherous Dragon foaled a massive Sweet Lou filly this am

If I send this to you it means you should consider the situation handled

This Mama fox relocated her pups to a new den and provided them with a variety of meals over the week, including rabbit, fish, snake, skunk, goose (or chicken), voles, and more. All seven pups are growing bigger and beginning to explore their surroundings

Bulldog Hanover filly o/o Wickedly Innocent

@roshanku35 @GhostofSwiftH Ingordo must have pinhooked him as a weanling

@ajhall44 @GhostofSwiftH I thought Jim crupi picked uncle mo

Same man that found Flightline Zenyatta Uncle Mo And countless others