With affidavits from a whistleblower and a veterinarian, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pushing ahead with efforts to oust the board of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF).

In state court filings objecting to the horse rescue group’s bid to toss out his explosive lawsuit, Schneiderman accused the foundation of a pattern of equine abuse that stretched from farms in New York to Kentucky to Oklahoma.

The Democratic attorney general said TRF "recklessly” allowed the size of its horse herd to grow at a time when its financial condition led to underfunding of basic equine care programs. Schneiderman is attempting to have a state court remove the foundation’s board of directors. The TRF has contended in court documents that the attorney general complaint is without merit.

"The defendant’s strident claim that TRF’s horses ‘consistently benefit from proper care’ is a grotesque distortion of the facts," Schneiderman said in a May 23 filing with a state court in Manhattan. "In reality, the TRF board’s substandard spending on the herd and its persistent failures of oversight have placed the entire TRF herd at risk and caused the neglect, suffering, and even death of retired race horses