Horses that retire are often in their late teens early 20's and sometimes late 20's. Why should be lose all that learned knowledge to a retirement field or retirement livery?

More horses that retire should end up raising young horses. Rather than purchasing a weanling to pair with the filly/colt you're weaning, you should be putting that youngster in with an older horse.

We don't leave toddlers to raise toddlers and we shouldn't be leaving foals and yearlings to raise foals and yearlings. None of them have any understanding of the world, how to behave around other horses, how to behave around people.

Furthermore, most retired horses when I've met them, often look very defeated, like they've lost their purpose in life. Rather than retiring them completely, they should still have a job, and in my opinion, the best job for these horses would be to raise the next generation of horses.

I would have far less horses to work with if more horses were raised around a good variety of different horses, mixed ages groups, mixed sexes, mixed personalities.

Horses should be Raising Horses!