Horse-trading is a derogatory term for dishonest dealing of any kind. It is seldom applied to the millions of horse-lovers, but it should be. Parents get their five year old girl a bike and teach her to ride it. At age twelve they get their girl a horse and teach her to ride it. When the bike looses its charm or usefulness, it is sold at a garage sale or left outside to rust. When the horse looses its charm or usefulness it is sold at an auction or left in a field to slowly die. Owning and riding a bike is a good thing to teach kids - owning any living creature is a wrong thing to teach our children. Owning and then disposing of a living creature is even worse. Horse-owing is covered in glamour, romance, and money, but the reality underneath is hard-nosed and cruelly selfish. Women like Barb Barillec are forced by their compassion to save the suffering detritus of the horse trade. There is only one Barb for every half-million horse users and traders.