Bright Futures Farm is a sanctuary for retired Thoroughbreds.  We find homes for many horses that have the potential for a new career as a trail horse or family pleasure mount.   Our focus is to save as many horses as we can before  they are faced with neglect or auction. 

We are always in need of foster homes.  When you foster a horse you help us save one more from harm.  Fostering expenses are tax-deductible.  If you have room, please ask us about our foster program.

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"I thought I retired from this sport..."

photo of Gold Deputy, aka "Gambit"

photo courtesy The Egidio's

What if...

....you could give Bright Futures Farm up to 26% or more of each everyday purchase you made at no extra cost to you?  It doesn't cost a cent to join iGive and once you sign up, every time you shop online, participating vendors give a percentage of your purchase, to Bright Futures Farm.

Just think of it as free money for Bright Futures Farm, your choice of over 600 nationally known online merchants like Barnes & Noble, Eddie Bauer, Lands' End PETsMART and ebay, your privacy guaranteed, plus money-saving deals and specials every day!  

It only takes a few minutes - really!  Please join www.iGive.com/BrightFutures  Once you sign up, there is nothing more to do. A little yellow flag slides down on the upper left corner of your computer screen when you are ordering from a company that participates--very rewarding and no change to your online shopping habits!

click below to join and help Bright Futures Farm:

www.iGive.com/BrightFutures

 

And, while you're searching the web, don't forget to use GoodSearch.com which makes a donation to us for each search.

Please save your Proof of Purchase from Triple Crown, Legends & Reliance - BFF can redeem them for more feed!  Please mail your clipped proofs to:

Bright Futures Farm

44793 Harrison Road

Spartansburg, PA  16434

We've only been doing this for three months with only three people participating, and we've raised $97.  That buys 1 week of feed for our horses.  This program works!  Please send us your proofs!!

Brite Decision

the true founder of Bright Futures Farm

celebrates his birthday on

March 10, 2008

 Brite Decision (left)  Arturo First (right)

Happy Birthday, Brite!

Brite Decision

(HIGH BRITE - EARLY DECISION)

1991 bay Thoroughbred gelding

Black Type Placed winner of $150,000

Bright Futures Farm is the home of

several equines who are

Breed Celebrities.

Fast Market

"Markie"

(Secretariat - Tina's Ten)

Markie has the distinction of being the last known son of the infamous Secretariat to race.  His final race drew the attention of the New York Post, and they featured him in a four page story shortly after his final start.

Markie's donor told us that the Kentucky Horse Park had expressed interest in Markie, but he chose Bright Futures Farm as Markie's retirement home, and we are thrilled and honored to have him as one of our permanent residents.

click here to read more about Markie

Zorro, Ziezo, Walter & Victor

"The G's"

The G's have celebrity status in the world of Driving and Fine Harness...Endurance Driving Competitions, CDE, Coaching, Dressage in Harness - they've been there, done that.  They are a 4-in-hand team of Gelderlanders registered with the KHP, imported from Holland in 1989 by Phillip Hoffman, then CEO, of Johnson & Johnson brand products.

Our boys have logged more air miles than most business travelers! 

Their last public performances were at the Kentucky Horse Park in the late 1990's.  They were the team chosen to pull the judges into the ring for opening ceremonies for the world renown Rolex Three Day Event.  We are honored to have these boys in our care.

click here to read more about our Boys.

Why we exist...

Many of the wonderful horses we re-home are Thoroughbreds  that can no longer race because of injury or inability to place consistently “in the money”.   For many of these horses,  the owner often sees no other useful purpose for the animal and sends it to an auction which most often results in a cruel demise at a slaughterhouse.  more...  

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT...

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BE A COMMUNITY PARTNER...

Does your company have a matching gifts program?  If so, please consider becoming a Community Partner with Bright Futures Farm.  You and other employees can join together and donate as little as $1 each per month to help our horses.  And, if your company has a matching gifts program, please ask them to match your contribution. 

MAKE A DONATION...

Click the button below to make a donation through paypal™.  No amount is too small.

100% of all donations go directly toward the care of our horses.  Our entire staff are volunteers.

Friends recently lost...

John Henry

March 9, 1975 - October 8, 2007

view my video of John taken 6-23-07 at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQ887HFwjM

March 9, 2008...Happy Birthday, John...

Gone of this earth, but alive in our memories and our hearts, thundering across the clouds with The Bart once again, and eating chocolate donuts.

Memorial Service Planned for the Great John Henry

"He was not the best race horse. He was not the fastest or the busiest. He wasn't the greatest weight carrier, and certainly not the handsomest or the most personable. But he was the most remarkable horse who ever raced -- anywhere. "

Joe Hirsch
Retired Daily Racing Form columnist

A public memorial service to remember and celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of John Henry will be held
October 19 at 2pm at the Kentucky Horse Park.

John's Memorial service will be televised at 2:00 PM EST by HRTV (Dish Network ch 404).  The only other Memorial Service I know of was Man O'War's in 1947.  His was broadcast on the radio.

John's service was a very touching tribute to a Great Champion as he was so often referred to - and with good reason.  John Nicholson, Executive Director of the Park, and all of the speakers gave such a deserved tribute to an individual who has touched so many lives for so many years.  And, as Mr. Nicholson said today,  John's legacy will live on in ways we can't even imagine.

                                     Walter                                   Barbaro

                                Gelderlander           2006 Kentucky Derby Winner

                    2/20/1980 - 1/22/2007     4/29/2003 - 1/29/2007

                                    Daphne                 Top Guns Fly Free (Gunner)

                        Arab cross mare             Thoroughbred gelding

                       1989 - 07/31/2007        (Fly So Free - Nat's Sallie)

                                                         02/09/1997 - 09/22/2007

Daphne died on 08-01-07 due to, in my opinion, the negligence of driver "Jim" and the owners of S & E Transport of Crossville, TN  ...Click Daphne's photo for more information.

      Be VERY careful about who you hire to transport your horse. 

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Gunner was laid to rest beside Daphne at a friend's farm in Catlett, VA

Gunner died in a freak accident in VA on 1-95 on his way home to Florida.  The garage that put new tires on Allene's Land Rover put the WRONG SIZE TIRE on the back, and it just fell off! The result was a horrid accident in which Gunner lost his life and Beau and Lily survived with non-life threatening injuries.

Please check your vehicle over carefully whenever you have any work done. 

Allene had used this garage for ten years and had no reason to think there would ever be a problem!  It cost Gunner his life, and it could have also taken the lives of Allene, Santos, Beau and Lily.

El Alegre

Thoroughbred Gelding

1996 - 11/03/07

Too many people are in a hurry.  Too many people are reckless in how they do things.  Debby K. OHearon of Clarksville, TN adopted Alegre.  I asked her who she was going to use to transport him as I had just lost Daphne due to negligence.  Debby quickly said..."I am.  I read about Daphne on your web site, and I would never do anything to harm him..."  

click here to read more...

   Jackson

Thoroughbred gelding

1985 - August 30, 2007

Mr. Chips

Paint Pony

When you adopt a horse you save two lives.

                                                                                                                                    M. Thompson

You save the life of the one you adopt, and you make room for one more at our farm.  Please consider adoption before you buy.

Darlin' is missing....

HAVE YOU SEEN ME...?

DID YOU BUY ME...?

Darlin was last seen on August 21, 2004 at the Florida Classic Horse Sale in Ocala.  Cathy Wyckoff of Ocala traded her to Norm Franklin, a dealer from Ocala.  Norm was not willing to provide us with any information when we contacted him.  We know he sold her and believe she could still be in Florida or Georgia. 

Click her photo for more information.

Anti Slaughter update and Horse Welfare Updates

Bright  Futures  Farm

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e-mail:  info@brightfuturesfarm.org

a 501(c)3 non profit organization