Silver Lakes Horse Rescue

Layup, Rehabilitation, Retraining of Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in the High Desert Sadly, the thoroughbred and quarter horse racing industry are the largest "throwaway" groups of the entire horse industry. Thousands of thoroughbred and quarte...

Layup, Rehabilitation, Retraining of Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in the High Desert Sadly, the thoroughbred and quarter horse racing industry are the largest "throwaway" groups of the entire horse industry. Thousands of thoroughbred and quarterhorses foals are born every year in the hopes that a few may have a great money winning career on the track. Horses are raced at the very early age of 2 years of age, and many are finished during and after that first year. They will be injured on the track or they are just not fast enough. 90% of them will be discarded in one way or the other... "I have been working for a horse racing farm for a long time and even if the care and training was all about the horses, the pressure from the customers was hard to withstand. Once injured or not fast enough, more than I can mention the owners called us up and asked us 'to g