First Grass — Bring New York's carriage horses home

What this is

They argued for twenty years whether the horses should stay or go.

Both answers end the same way — the horse, gone. Banned to who-knows-where, or quietly worn out and sold off. We're the only ones asking the question everyone skipped: where do they actually land, and who feeds them in 2050? So we concede the fight over the carriages — and we save the horses.

Abandoned

A ban with no plan is 200 horses pushed into the auction-and-slaughter pipeline at once — brands sanded off, gone. It has happened before, one traced horse at a time.

Home

Every horse placed on a certified family farm, funded for life, chipped, under a no-slaughter covenant — many of them healing kids who need them. That's First Grass.

The board

About two hundred horses. This is where they stand.

Every one gets a name, a face, and a live journey home. Watch the board turn green.

0 of ~200 home

At riskStill waitingHome

A live shell for launch — it fills in from the real roster the day the city releases their names. First Grass placements start at zero, honestly.

Our first act

The city licenses every horse — and won't tell you a single name.

New York records each horse by a number branded on its hoof, then publishes nothing: no names, no ages, no health, no deaths, no destinations. So the first thing First Grass does is force the city to release their names.

529horses left the trade in seven years — the paper trail shows most simply disappeared.

3the only ones ever traced after leaving — each found by its hoof-brand in a kill pen.

1the first human death in the trade's ~150 years — a tourist, 18, in June 2026.

The Homecoming Fund

A pasture for life — guaranteed before a single horse ships.

No horse leaves the city without a funded, certified home waiting. Not charity that runs out in three years — an endowment obligation for the whole of the animal's life.

A stipend for lifeFeed, farrier and vet, paid to the farm for as long as the horse lives.
A permanent chip-IDNot a sand-off-able brand. A public registry entry, forever.
A no-slaughter covenantLegally binding, travels with the horse. Break it, lose the horse.
Purpose, not a parking lotTurnout, a herd, and equine therapy for kids who need them.
Struggling family farmsIdle barns and real land, revived by caring for these horses.
The drivers come tooFirst right for the people who know these horses to be their stewards.