Good for you. I have also wondered about the horses and ponies I rode as a kid. I still remember almost every one fondly, but i'm afraid their lives didn't improve when the stable no longer found them useful.
There's a riding camp in my area-Sprucelands Riding Camp-where kids spend their summers loving the horses. I was horrified to find out that they will send horses to the killers if they are no longer fit to work. I would have assumed they would euthanize them.

just go to a horse auction and quietly find out who the killers are. they will buy Young perfectly healthy horses to make into meat which at one time was sent mostly to Canada. i am sorry and you have know idea how sorry i am. a lot of the horses i had with me when i worked in summer camps. Young beautiful healthy and child quiet. most of them went to the killers at the end of camp season. it seems it is really a terrible world out there

Your right reading about so many of the horrible things that are happening to animals it helped to see the video. I also go and hug "my girls" after reading some of the stories as they are both rescues and as my husband says, "they won the winning lottery ticket" hopefully someday all animals will have the same fate as "my girls".

I would hope so. It would be wonderful if there were a loving owner for each and every dog and cat in the world.

I too hope that the horse lives a long time for her.