Ivy League

Saving Ivy League was a collaborative – cooperative and compassionate task. Ivy League was saved from a Pennsylvania  kill buyer’s lot in December 2020. Ivy League stood in a kill lot with 60 + other Standardbred horses who had raced and many had also been Amished. When their work and racing lives are over they are sent to auction where notorious kill buyers purchase them for their meat value. These kill buyers collect the horses, tag them for slaughter at their pens and ship them to be brutally slaughtered in Canada or Mexico for human consumption.  This is a process far too familiar to anyone who rescues at-risk and slaughter bound equines, the racing industry and also the Amish discard their horses into the auctions where the kill buyers are waiting.  Peaceful Acres Horses happens to be one of the rescue organizations who attempts to help save the lives of former racehorses; we have successfully become the home-safe-loving home for several Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds including Ivy League. At the time of saving Ivy we learned that she had recently stopped nursing a foal, we do not know what happened to her foal, but we do know she held that loss and sadness. 

Ivy League is now in our loving care and she is slowly gaining trust and healing her emotional wounds perpetrated upon her by other people. Here at PAH Ivy is learning that people are kind, compassionate, dedicated and loving and without exception we are here to provide for her physical and emotional needs. We will keep our promises to Ivy and we will perhaps find her a Forever Guardian in the future who will love her as much as we do.