The PROBLEM, is that after their careers as Central Park carriage horses have concluded, when they're too old, when they've been juiced of all their usefulness, then many such horses face dubious, post-carriage-career fates, which include being "disappeared" into a world of Canadian and Mexican horse auctions; the winners of which auctions mostly see the horses to slaughter, to service the global horse-meat demand.

The SOLUTION, is that the current and eventual whereabouts of NYC carriage horses be more closely monitored by NYC's Department of Health, and that the horses not be allowed to be "disappeared" for yet additional profit after having already provided their owners with prime years of profitable service (and that such be made conditions of the carriage operators being licensed to operate).  AND, that a percentage of every fare paid for an NYC carriage ride go toward the relevant horse's eventual retirement and upkeep; so they can live out the remainder of their lives in the work-free, slaughter-free fashion they have earned.

A reminder, is that the natural lifespan of a horse is 25-30 years.

Some economic CONTEXT, is that the average NYC horse-drawn carriage ride runs between $50 to $100.  If just 5% to 10% of those transactions were to be siphoned into a withheld fund for the carriage horse's eventual retirement, then... well, you can see how easily this idealistic notion could become a realistic one.

The most streamlined scenario would see one dedicated farm/sanctuary/retirement home for all of the Central Park carriage horses to be homed within, when their beastly pulling years've ended; with that destination being directly funded by the slender percentages siphoned from the fares.  It could, for instance, be located somewhere in upstate New York.  Personally, I feel the best location would be somewhere within massive Central Park, itself; which would make the retirement home an attractive destination for parkgoers, who would flock to see the retired carriage horses finally freely graze and roam; and which would place the carriage horse retirement home in the same league of destinational esteem as the Central Park Zoo, Carousel, Museum of Natural History, and Conservatory Pond.

After a morning of often hectic, thankless drudgery, we New Yorkers love to reward ourselves with a slice, at lunch; after forty or fifty years of surviving such bustle as that of this city, we New Yorkers tend to reward ourselves with retirement to such locations as Florida.  Equines are the furnaces of the animal kingdom.  No New Yorker is amid more bustle, daily, and works harder within it, than do NYC carriage horses; let's provide them fair reward for what is a blatant burden.