Horses Without Carriages International www.horseswithoutcarriages.org

Please check out our invitation. Tickets are $45 until the day of the fund raiser when the price is $50 at the door so please support this cause now.

We are also very pleased to have Maria Milito, from radio station Q104.3, as our host. Some of you may know her as a frequent guest host on NY1's The Call. Senator Tony Avella and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal will be on hand to talk about their bill in Albany to ban horse-drawn carriages. Entertainment will be provided by singers Joy Askew, Brian Gari and Deborah Thomas -- all different - and all terrific. Donny Moss / Blinders, Peter Muller / LoHV and Susan Wagner / Equine Advocates -- and I - will all be part of the program.

Thanks to everyone who has already purchased a ticket. Your name will be on a list at the door, along with two raffle tickets for great prizes for the early birders. You will not be receiving a ticket in the mail.

IMPORTANT: If you are planning to attend Lobby Day -- and are not going by the LoHV bus, please click on the LOHV link above, and then click on "no thanks, I'll make my own arrangements" and enter your contact information so LoHV can determine who your legislators are and be able to contact and coordinate with you the day of the event.

From the Vienna Times, dated 4/4/12 - Fiaker goes on the loose in Vienna> ["Faiker" is a horse-drawn carriage."] Two Fiaker horses took off with their carriage and went on the loose from their stand in Vienna city centre. The two horses fled from their owner at Vienna's Heldenplatz - they managed to get to Michaelerplatz before they were stopped. Nobody was injured in the event, but one of the horses has a slight foot injury. According to police the Fiaker driver was at the stand at around 7.30pm on Easter Sunday and was about to leave for the day when the two horses were startled by a passing car. The owner tried to stop the horses but the horses fled with their harnesses and their carriage attached through the city centre. The horses and carriage were stopped when one of the horses tripped and police could stop the animals and bring them to safety. Nobody was injured.

4/4/12 - No Horsing Around this Time - Will the Central Park horses finally be outlawed? By Anam Baig and Sean Creamer - Central Park's horse-drawn carriages have been a traditional New York City tourist attraction since the 1930s, but animal rights activists have been pushing for years to close the stables, free the horses and find them a home outside the Big Apple. Three recent incidents involving the horses have resparked the debate and shed light again on the horses and the iconic tourist experience. March 3, a horse was spooked on the Upper West Side and took off, dragging a tipped carriage through heavy traffic. Last December, a horse collapsed near Grand Army Plaza at 59th Street while pulling a carriage holding three adults and a child, tossing them to the ground. In October, another horse, Charlie, died while pulling a carriage on the way to Central Park. Those in favor of the horse carriages claim that the incidents are sporadic and don't reflect the high standard used by the industry. The opponents claim that it's just another day at work for the horses. Continued

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