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Many cops choose
thoroughbreds
By Sarah Greenhalgh ,
Times Community Newspapers
Special Writer
Once they entertained thousands with their speed and beauty over fences and on the flat; now they work as members of the United State Park Police. These former racehorses are serving and protecting the very civilians they used to thrill with their skills.
Retired from racing, horses donated to the program based in Washington, D.C. get a new lease on life by becoming a property of the U.S. government. Since the 1930s not one horse has been bought for the USPP — all are donations from owners. Ninety percent of horses given to the program are thoroughbreds, and most formerly competed on the track.
Unable to race any more, some are donated because of the choice tax write-off, or because the owners wish to see their still-usable horses go to a good home.
When a horse is accepted into the mounted police program, he is issued a “property number.” The number ensures the horse will never be sold for
See POUCE, Page 5
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