While the criminal trial for Ian McKeever, the horse handler who allegedly abused his carriage horse Ryder in Aug. 2022, was supposed to start on Feb. 24 at Manhattan Criminal Court but was postponed again until Mar. 18, animal rights activists with NYCLASS, New York City Council Member Robert Holden (D-Queens), and Republican Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa held a rally outside the courthouse, renewed their demands the City Council and speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) finally bring Intro #967, also known as Ryder’s Law, to a vote.
The bill would ban horse-drawn carriages and replace them with electric carriages.
