Sale filly raises $57,000 for retired racehorses
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A yearling filly sold at auction has raised $US57,000 for thoroughbred aftercare, afterward beingness bred specifically for fund raising.
Jan too Jerry Hawthorne of Double J H Stables too Madeline Auerbach teamed upwards final twelvemonth to breed a Equus caballus for the produce goodness of retired Thoroughbreds. The persuasion was to sell a foal at the Barretts Yearling Sale too donate all the proceeds to CARMA (California Retirement Management Account), which raises coin for retired California racehorses.
The chestnut filly, past times the Nureyev son Unusual Heat out of Practicaly Perfect (Pleasantly Perfect x Kelli Lee past times Kris S), sold at the Barretts Oct Yearling Sale on Tuesday.
“I desire to give thank y'all everyone for all their difficult move to brand this happen,” said Madeline Auerbach, CARMA Chair.
“Thank y'all to January for donating a beautiful mare too taking the responsibleness of raising a wonderful babe at her ain expense, to the Unusual Heat Syndicate for donating the stud fee, too to Harris Farms too Barretts Sales Company for waiving their commissions on the sale. Without everyone’s back upwards nosotros could non accept done this.”
CARMA Executive Director Lucinda Mandella said a key role of the group’s mission is to promote manufacture back upwards for aftercare.
“When the auctioneer said all the proceeds from the sale would produce goodness retired racehorses, applause broke out inwards the pavilion, too when the hammer dropped everyone cheered. It wasn’t nearly the money; it was nearly the persuasion that, equally a community, nosotros could move together for an of import cause,” she said.
The Hawthornes were the underbidders on the filly. There is unopen to other foal inwards the pipeline, amongst Practicaly Perfect beingness dorsum inwards foal to Unusual Heat.
The filly was purchased past times agent Tim McMurray inwards the cite of Fleetwood Bloodstock too was scheduled to survive shipped to Kentucky for training.
CARMA, a 501c3 non-profit, raises coin for retired Thoroughbred racehorses that accept raced inwards California. It is a fellow member of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance too has a topographic point on the NTRA Safety Alliance’s aftercare subcommittee, which industrial plant toward a national solution to issues surrounding retired racehorses.
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