“Do a Good Deed, Geld Your Steed.” That’s the motto for one of the Unwanted Horse Coalition’s most successful programs, Operation Gelding.

Operation Gelding provides funds and materials that help organizations host low-cost or free castration clinics. Castration of a stallion will help prevent overbreeding, in turn reducing the number of unwanted horses. Castrations will also produce a gentler horse that is more rideable, trainable, saleable and adoptable. Funds of $50 per horse gelded, with a $1,000 maximum, will be awarded to participating groups once in a 12-month period.

For a full schedule of Operation Gelding clinics, visit www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org/current-clinic-schedule/.

Since its inception in 2010, Operation Gelding has aided in the castration of more than 1,000 horses.

For more information, go to www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org/operation-gelding.