More letters on continuing with freeze branding

I’m very concerned about not having Freeze brands on our Standardbreds. I’m a breeder and owner small time but I love my horses and the Standardbred breed so much I do some rescuing here on the West coast and I work with Auction horse rescue, none of the horses we have rescued and rehomed would never have gotten a second chance without that freeze brand, the auctions on the west coast call us when the see one.

Many times, they call us when a horse is brought to their auctions in bad shape so we can act very swiftly as you know auctions run very fast.

There’s no way we can walk in a pen with 25 to 50 horses to scan then identify. We cannot take a chance of putting ourselves in such harm’s way.

My trainer in Minnesota is very strict that all babies have those freeze brands how else will she and her help know which bay horse to pull from the pasture without them?

This is the worst possible idea for our breed of horse not to carry the freeze brand we have the greatest breed our freeze brand sets us apart as to the type of horse we have and why they have careers after racing and being pulled by an Amish cart, many are rehabbed and have excellent life after racing, we breed the iron horse good bone, legs and hooves.

As an owner and breeder and rescuer of our Standardbreds on the West Coast to remove the Freeze Brand is the worse Bone Head idea, I’ve heard in my life Tbreds are doing the same string by removing lip tattoo, and using this chip is not smart or good business and is a testament to animal activist racing wrongs and PETA we use horse like and old pair of shorts with skid marks on it.

Please don’t tell me Freeze brand is available if asked for I don’t believe it because I have asked the individual hired to do  indentification, have used every excuse in the book why they don’t do it, they forgot the tools to Freeze Brand or have run out of Nitrogen, to flat refusing, I even offered an extra 200 bucks a horse to get it done on my foals.

This is not acceptable we pride ourselves of our breed being set apart because of the freeze brand they carry who they are for life we are anti horse slaughter registry that’s our possession this is why we save so many of them from neglect kill pen feed lots auction and just being abandon we cannot without that freeze brand and not having capable individual hired to place it is a real disservice to the greatest horse breed our Standardbred.

Regards,

PS I’m very concern people out east making these decisions don’t realize the consequences this may have with Peta and animal activists; they view this as a cover up so racehorses will not have the Freeze Brand identification so our Standardbreds industry and Thoroughbred can make a horse disappear more easily.

There are 750,000 Peta members in California, all it takes is 250,000 signatures to get a bill on a ballot to vote to end racing, and all the scandals with Thoroughbreds and drugs and horses dropping dead and breaking down we don’t need to give them another bullet. If Thoroughbred racing gets to the voting ballot and bans it, they take us with them.

All these horses deserve their freeze brand that says who they are for the rest of their lives, we owe it to them.