First Grass wants New York’s carriage horses to have somewhere to go

Why it surfaced

First Grass turns an old argument about carriage horses into a sharper question: where does each animal actually land? Its proposed answer includes a public roster, lifetime farm funding, permanent identification, and no-slaughter covenants—though the board currently begins at zero while the campaign seeks the city’s names.

A civic campaign argues that the city’s carriage horses should leave the streets only for named, funded, permanent homes.