By the time you read this, tax time will be nearly over. The rush to get all those receipts collected and all the itemized deductions documented will be but a fond memory. My guess is that you, like many others and me, had some charitable donations in 1998. We gave to the church, and the heart fund, and the lung association, and the cancer fund, and United Way, and March of Dimes, and God’s Pantry, and the Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, and the local or state police, and maybe even our college alumni association.

So, in all those donations, how much did you give to equine research?

Kinda makes you stop and think, doesn’t it? I know it did when I made myself face the same question.

It’s not that any of the multitude of charities out there are not deserving. We might have a more personal interest in one or two because they touch home somehow