Equine Rescue Places 123 Thoroughbreds in 2009

 Thoroughbred Placement and Rescue (TPR), a 501(c)(3) located in Upper Marlboro, Md., specializes in retraining and placing horses directly off of the racetrack to pleasure and show homes. In the past year, even with the downturn in the economy, TPR (as their fans fondly call them) still found homes for 123 horses. While this does not quite match their hightest number of 150 (before the

Share
Favorite
Close

No account yet? Register

ADVERTISEMENT

Thoroughbred Placement and Rescue (TPR), a 501(c)(3) located in Upper Marlboro, Md., specializes in retraining and placing horses directly off of the racetrack to pleasure and show homes. In the past year, even with the downturn in the economy, TPR (as their fans fondly call them) still found homes for 123 horses. While this does not quite match their hightest number of 150 (before they were a non-profit), it is still pretty remarkable when you consider that they have only been a non-profit since March of 2009.

TheHorse.com is an integral part of their success.

"Without the assistance of gracious free advertising (on TheHorse.com Adoption Services) and my volunteers that aid me posting the horses (to include my saint-like mother), we would never be able to place the number of horses that we have, " said Kim Clark, TPR's President and a 25-year veteran of the racetrack.

She said TheHorse.com enables TPR to draw attention to these animals beyond the local area which, in turn, will enable TPR to place the perfect horse with their perfectly matched human

Create a free account with TheHorse.com to view this content.

TheHorse.com is home to thousands of free articles about horse health care. In order to access some of our exclusive free content, you must be signed into TheHorse.com.

Start your free account today!

Already have an account?
and continue reading.

Share

Written by:

Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

Related Articles

Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with

FREE weekly newsletters from TheHorse.com

Sponsored Content

Weekly Poll

sponsored by:

How much time do you usually spend grooming your horse?
439 votes · 439 answers

Readers’ Most Popular

Sign In

Don’t have an account? Register for a FREE account here.

Need to update your account?

You need to be logged in to fill out this form

Create a free account with TheHorse.com!