Blue Star Equiculture is an advocate for working horses. We believe that supporting working horses helps ensure their protection from the real evils of abandonment and slaughter. We are very concerned about the misconceptions the general public has about working horses and we intend, through our carriage horse retirement program and working horse advocacy, to shed some light on how valuable the carriage industry is for the horses and the community.
Radical anti-carriage-horse activists are agitating against urban working horses, seeking to deprive them of their homes and jobs through calls for total bans on horse-drawn carriages.
In their attempts to win public sympathy for their extreme position, they have perpetuated a host of myths, misconceptions, and outright lies about carriage horses.
This website seeks to redress some of the untruths about carriage and other working horses out there that are dangerous and damaging to horses everywhere.
For many people, the closest they’ll ever experience a living, breathing horse is seeing a carriage horse in a city. We owe it to the horses to honor their partnership with us in building our civilization--not by banishing horses to some unknown fate “out there”--but by celebrating the honest labor of mankind’s most important animal companion. For 6000 years, horse and human have enjoyed each other’s company and worked together as partners.
- Working in harness is not cruel or abusive. The harness is a tool that helps the horse do his job, easily and comfortably.
- Horses belong with people, not out ‘running wild and free’ someplace. ‘Wild and free’ is a euphemism for neglected and unloved.
- Carriage drivers and owners love and care for their horses.
- A happy, well-cared-for carriage horse is a BEAUTIFUL HORSE.
If you want to help horses, take a carriage ride! Your fare supports the care and well-being of the carriage horses. Please also support your local horse rescue that cares for the homeless horses in your area who are not as fortunate as the carriage horses are.