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Dec 17, 2007 6:37 pm US/Eastern

Arabbers' Horses Settle Into New Homes

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Reporting
Pat Warren
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― The last of the Retreat Street horses are settling into new homes.  The animals that pull fruit and vegetable carts owned by vendors known as a
arabbers were moved when the city condemned the Retreat Street stable that housed them.

As Pat Warren reports, some of the horses are now officially retired.

Instead of delivering dinner to your door, summer is coming to them.

The last of the cart-pulling horses rescued from poor conditions in the city have found a home with Horsenet Horse Rescue in Mt. Airy.

"That's to keep them from going to slaughter," said Ellie Williams.

That seems to be most of the horses she gets.  Williams is executive director of Horsenet Horse Rescue, a safety net for approximately 150 horses at two farms.

The arabbers, she says, are a different breed, not in stock but in social skills.

"They're a little quirky bunch," she said.

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