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WHERE HAVE ALL THE HORSES GONE!

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7 1/2 year study reveals a very high turnover of NYC carriage horses averaging 71 per year. 529 have turned over since the end of2005.

WHAT YOU CAN DO -The most important thing you can do as an individual concerned with carriage horses in NYC is to contact your elected officials and get them to support the Avella/Rosenthal bill - S667/A997 in the state legislature, which would prohibit the operation of horse-drawncarriages in NYC. This is not an iconic business- it is thecarriage drivers and the media that promote that. This is abusiness that exploits horses and that continues to break the law, enabled by the City agencies in charge and by the ASPCA. It is a business that has held NYC hostage for years.

On any given day, you will find carriage horses being left unattended and untethered at the hack line while their drivers socialize with other drivers and fail to pay attention; making dangerous u-turns in heavy traffic around the Central Park Area. You will see carriages being over loaded because no one in authority is monitoring the situation. And this does not even begin to touch on their living conditions, which include no turnout to pasture; "legally"working 9 hours a day, 7 days a week; stalls,which are legal,but less than half the size of what experts recommend. See The Top 15 Reasons why NYC Should Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages.