Memorial Wall Honors Horses, Facilitates Research Funding

The Animal Health Foundation wants to ensure that no horse or pony with laminitis is ever forgotten.
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Flash and Casey are there with Secretariat and Barbaro. Little Dixie, Chief, and Midnight are not far behind.

The Animal Health Foundation (AHF), a U.S. charity dedicated exclusively to funding laminitis research, has set a new goal: to make sure that no horse with laminitis is ever forgotten. As a result, the most famous racehorse and the most unknown pony will share their own special place on the Internet in memory of their struggle with the painful disease of laminitis.

A fledgling “memorial wall” list was launched in December 2014 on the AHF website. Donors to the AHF in 2015 can personalize a monetary gift by attaching a horse’s name and a human’s name. The names will appear on the website, alongside others from all over the world and beneath a stunning photograph by New Jersey racing photographer Sarah K. Andrew, showing red roses draped over Secretariat’s grave at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky.

In 2015, AHF funds are supporting pioneering research on the role of incretins in equine insulin production and regulation at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, among other ongoing research projects

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