Michigan State University’s Large Animal Hospital has been helping prepare retired racehorses for other occupations. Working together with CANTER, these horses receive necessary medical and surgical care, and then are sent on to new homes and new careers.
 
CANTER acts as a liaison between buyers and sellers, trying to match people with the right horses. Several hundred horses so far have been relocated through the program to new lives as jumpers, dressage horses, event horses, 4-H horses, and simple backyard horses. (Check out CANTER’s Web site at www.canterusa.org/michigan)

Funded by grants and private donations, the injured or ill horses have available to them the full diagnostic resources and surgical services of the Large Animal Hospital. If you would like to contribute to this effort, call 517/353-4937 or you can donate online.–Jason Noffsinger, MSU