The Standardbred Horse Fan Club is for anyone
who loves the breed!
The Standardbred posseses integrity and a strong work ethic no matter what the task
The beauty of Standarbreds - apart from their outer and inner beauty ofcourse! - is the
incredible versatility that Standardbreds possess. You will see the horses in dressage, jumping,
eventing, western, equitation, trotters, pacers, endurance, parades, police work, search and rescue work and as adorable,
reliable, trustworthy and noble pets (or as we prefer to say, extended family!).
The Standardbred Fan Club is comprised of people who
have Standardbreds, are interested in the breed, want to make friends with other Standardbred owners or fans,
and anyone from
anywhere in the world! At present, the Club runs out of
Epona Stable located in British Columbia,
Canada.
We invite you to peruse who some of the Standardbred
Fan Club members are and the lovely
horses in the Members and Photos section (and if you would like to join the club, everyone is welcome).
There are lots of Good reasons to join the Standardbred Horse Fan Club.
Membership includes a g'zillion benefits and your forever membership is for a Good cause too!
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The Club's enormously successful retraining video (now the leading Pacer retraining method)
that shows you the five simple steps in re-training
your Standardbred horse from a pace racing career to a riding horse.
The DVD was made primarily for the novice and rider with some riding experience who have
adopted or brought home a Standardbred horse from the pacing race track or adoption organization,
although it will also be useful to instructors and trainers.
Retraining Trainer and Instructor Certification
The Pacer Retraining Trainer Certification (PRT) and Pacer Retraining Instructor Certification (PRI) provides the expertise to retrain a
pacer or instruct as a qualified professional.
PRT's
are in high demand due to the special knowledge, experience and understanding required to retrain pacers. PRI's instruct others who have adopted a pacer on how to ride and work with the pacer.
Pacer owners and riders can be reassured that the certified Pacer Retraining Trainer has
a complete understanding of the retraining method for a successful riding horse outcome. read more
Natural Horsemanship
made simple Coming soon! A work-in-progress by the Club Founder. Natural Horsemanship made simple for
better working with and understanding your special horse.
Standardbred Horse Fan Club internship
Once a year we accept one intern
to learn how to retrain a Pacer based on the Club's retraining method. We select from
foreign as well as local applications. more info
Standardbred Horses spotlight
What was the breed and name of the horse that
holds the world record as the only
horse to ever win three
Olympic Gold medals
in the sport of show jumping? (watch the video for this amazing feat!)
Below are some of the
Standardbred Fan Club's members with their talented Standardbred horse show jumpers.
Maureen Chaffey & Peter Pan
The Standardbred Fan Club is always looking for more information on Standardbreds. Although the club and site is entirely run by volunteer effort, input from members sure helps :) Send us your stories, successes, information.
Join us for some Standardbred cameraderie!
Standardbred Fan Club club news
Spud
From race track, to auction and headed for the slaughter house - but saved by a kind heart - a Standardbred
horse that showed how to serve his community.
Since the Standardbred Fan Club first wrote of Spud, a former pacer Standardbred, new career in our 'Stories' section (see above)
Spud was selected as the Standardbred that Performance Standardbreds (Calgary) will be featuring at the prestigious Spruce Meadows show grounds (2008)
and Spud's story was published in the Pacific Prairie Horse Journal Magazine (August 2008 issue) and the Horses All newspaper (July, 2008 issue).
Media
North America's largest horse publication, Horse Illustrated, included the Standardbred Horse Fan Club in a June, 2013 article on
retired race horses.
STOP Horse Slaughter in Canada with Bill C-322
On October 5, 2011 NDP MP Alex Atamanenko tabled Private Member’s Bill C-322 that
would effectively shut down the slaughter of horses in Canada for human consumption.
Nearly 90,000 horses are slaughtered in Canada every year in our nation's slaughter houses where horses are stunned and shot ineffectively and
die a horrific death while still alive being vivisected. Thousands of USA and Canadian race horses are disposed of in this way when they can
no longer make money for their owners at the race track.
Join us and many others to stop this inhumane business. Download the Bill C-322 petition, gather 25 signatures (neighbours, friends,
family), let us know that you have a completed petition(s) with 25 signatures and we will make sure that it gets to MP Alex Atamanenko. Thank you on behalf of the horses!
If anyone has any comments about horse transportation or slaughter, also feel free to contact the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
there is a comments form on Agency's web site:
www.inspection.gc.ca
Make your views known directly to the Agency on their feedback form - the gov't wont know what our views are unless we tell them!
The tragic reality is that Canada slaughters nearly 90,000 horses every year.
The majority of those horses are race horses and the majority of those horses are the Standardbreds with
the Thoroughbreds following close behind. Canada not only accepts the Unites States unwanted horses for slaughter in this country (the Americans have
outlawed horse slaughter), we
also contribute thousands of our own unwanted horses to the tragic business.
Our country's rescues are using all their resources to help those fortunate few horses that escape the death sentence. However
thousands more end up
at the auctions where killer-buyers are waiting to bid on the horses and load them into trucks to their final
painful and cruel destination: Our nation's slaughter houses where horses are stunned and shot ineffectively and die a horrific death
while still alive being vivisected.
Our idea is to establish a Canada Race Horse Retirement Foundation
to enable the horses to have a second chance to do what horses do so well: Serve their country
and their communities. We want to explore and put into practice innovative new ideas to bring horses
into peoples lives meaningfully such as inspirations for children with autism, youth at risk,
the elderly, individuals with terminal illnesses, as educators of life skills,
thereby saving as many retired race horses as possible from the tragic and shortlived lives
they must endure - starting as early as barely the age of two.
We realize that support has to come from the public. The reality is that even here in British Columbia, our provincial
government pours millions of dollars every year of slot machine gambling money into the horse racing industry - none of that
money goes to the horses - over six million dollars is given to racing purses alone. This practice
only increases the number of horses that meet their death at the hands of an industry that puts
profit before the quality of life for its athletes.
If you want to support the Canada Race Horse Retirement Foundation, please
Read more about the Foundation idea and how
we intend to put it into practice
Long live the race horses!
Sponsor me and help me
Horse awaiting its fate at the race track with a new start!
Pacer Sponsorship
Every year the club's founder and volunteers head over to the
local pacer racetrack at season end and rehome the horses ... we have a few short days to locate homes for as many race horses
as possible. Last year we saved 30 horses at the track from the killer-buyers.
We have a sponsor program for horses that haven't been rehomed and horses that are in our care.
If horse ownership isn't a possibility at this time, look at the wonderful benefits of sponsoring one of our pacers!
If you would
like to sponsor a horse, below are two horses that would welcome a sponsor to help with their
food and care, as well as others on our sponsorship page:
Your contribution as
a sponsor will help
so very much with their food, care and retraining needs.
The club relies entirely on volunteer efforts for all of its activities.
To continue the work, please consider making a donation or select
a former racehorse from our sponsorship page to help us with the retraining, care and food costs.
As the Standardbred Horse Fan Club continues to grow and increase activities, a larger facility is a must-item on the horizon.
Since its inception in 1994, the Club has poured any revenues that it receives into the retraining, feeding and caring for the
rescued horses from the track:
The rescued horses only
hope was us when their pacing careers ended and we made a pledge to provide a good life for each of these beautiful animals which
includes finding lifelong partners in forever loving homes for the horses.
To continue our work both on behalf of the horses and the community, we have to grow and expand into a larger
facility. Standardbred horses are wonderful with children teaching lots of life skills and providing outdoors fun! Adults
adore the horses for their kind and forgiving natures - read our members stories and see how the horses bring joy and happiness
into their owners lives.
The club has not applied
for status as a non-profit society: The club does not want to deplete the already substandard
funding available to the Standardbred adoption societies and we also support ending horse slaughter due to the inhumane methods used which
is contrary to Canadian horse slaughter laws.
Please join the Standardbred Horse Fan Club and support our Bigger and Better Horse Facility Campaign!
Our reward is to see happy, healthy horses that
have a good future ahead of them.
Wont you please help us?
Every little bit helps!
We offer you our pledge that every penny
you donate will go directly to the care of horses, to our causes, and to educating the public about
the wonderful Standies!
The club relies entirely on volunteer efforts for all of its activities.
To continue the work, please consider making a donation or select
a former racehorse from our sponsorship page to help us with the retraining, care and food costs.
We offer you our pledge that every penny
you donate will go directly to the care of horses, to our causes, and to educating the public about
the wonderful Standies!
Members Standardbred
A former racehorse finds a new life and new hopemore ... Standardbreds are wonderful horses more ... How A Shy Scruffy Horse Became A Magnificent Maremore ...
A Rescue Storymore ... Brody, A Special Horsemore ... Since he "died", Ben has won numerous first places!more ... I got the best Christmas present ever that year!more ... The best horse I could have ever bought.more ... When I met him, I understood.more ... I am from small Europe
country Estonia.more ... Standardbreds have a huge heart.more ... More amazing stories!
The Standardbred Fan Club is always looking for more information on Standardbreds. Although the club and site
is entirely run by volunteer effort, input from members sure helps :) Send us your stories, successes, information.
The Standardbred posseses integrity and a strong work ethic no matter what the task
See clips
from the Pacer Retraining video.
Maureen Chaffey & Peter Pan
Star at the racetrack
Star today
Jewel, a two and a half year old filly
Jewel's pretty face
Our reward is to see happy, healthy horses that
have a good future ahead of them.
A former racehorse finds a new life and new hope
