Horse saved from “slaughter pipeline” has foal

Cream Ridge, NJ – 5/5/2022 – In late 2021 the Standardbred Retirement Foundation, (SRF) took a mare from the slaughter pipeline. Rescuing her brought a surprise, a baby on the way. This happens several times every year for SRF, why we have most mares checked before we move forward with trying to find a home.

Fare Compare, a 16-year-old daughter of E Dee’s Cam had no speed to show and not very exciting bloodlines. We assume she was a working horse for most of her years then sold at a livestock auction. It isn’t easy to predict whether she was intentionally bred or not, and what breed her dad was. When the facility she was spending her quarantine days at found she was in foal they said, “Yes! We can foal her here and we will adopt Fare Compare and her baby.”

Her baby was welcomed into a family with three children, and all has gone well, the kids are overjoyed!

SRF is very grateful for the support of generous donors to take this mare off the slaughter line. Her gentle temperament might cause her to hug each of her donors, and the baby seems to have taken on her same mannerism. As for the dad, this filly is unusually large for a Standardbred, very dark, has four legs that may become white. Would anyone care to guess who’s the daddy?

From the Standardbred Retirement Foundation