CHICAGO BILL was rescued by F.R.I.E.N.D.S. on June 7, 2010 from a young woman who had gotten a Thoroughbred horse 3 weeks earlier. She said the horse was colicking and she no longer had the money to care for the horse nor for the second Thoroughbred she had taken in about a year ago. She was not intentionally abusing them; she simply did not know what to do for them and she no longer had the finances to care for them.
  Upon arriving at FRIENDS, the vet did a thorough check of both horses and immediately put them on a special diet to remove the large amount of sand they had ingested while living in the dirt paddock they were found in.  While the vet was examining them, he documented the lip tattoo that helps us to trace the real history of these horses. CHICAGO BILL, the chestnut gelding, had once raced at Gulfstream Race Track and had actually won $82,154 during his racing career before he ended up in the sandy paddock in Davie.  Once a very kept, handsome, athletic race horse he was unfortunately found in this condition.  Why? How? We are currently trying to establish how the young lady got the two horses and where they originally came from. She said CHICAGO BILL was already in this condition when she got him 3 weeks before and he had colicked several times under her care.  She alleges she got him from someone in Palm Beach and they delivered the horse to her in this condition just 3 weeks before~~~ still wearing racing shoes.