By KHOU11 (Houston). This morning (Tuesday, August 9, 2011) the Arabian Community was visited by another cataclysmic nightmare when a barn fire struck the Fred Goslin/Gwen Nix farm in Magnolia, Texas. The blaze errupted at 6 a.m. in the training barn housing 28 show horses. 14 horses were lost in the fire, but 14 were rescued by Fred and Jennifer and their children Casey and Crizta. The barn housed nationally decorated horses for people throughout the Southwest area, including several of the family’s children’s horses.

Tom McNutt is organizing on-site assistance to help with clean-up and to prepare for re-building. If you are interested in donating “In-Kind” assistance, contact Tom at 936-756-2724 to offer assistance. For those supplying In Kind donations, whether of service or product, the assistance can be deducted through the Arabian Horsemen’s Distress Fund. Contact [email protected] for more information. (The website for the Horsemen’s Distress Fund is http://m1e.net/c?15899257-fsPcrwtvL0F/U%406702289-sbqAxeyjaAeXE.)

If you would like to assist with donations for the Goslin/Nix family, simply go to the How You Can Help page on this website, where you will find a secure PayPal button to make an online, 100% deductible donation. All monies generated on behalf of the family will be available for their use – no money is utilized towards administrative expenses. To earmark your online donation to help the Goslins, just send an e-mail to [email protected] with a copy of the PayPal receipt you will receive via e-mail and ask that the money be applied to the Goslins.

If you would prefer to assist by check, simply make your check payable to The Arabian Horsemen’s Distress Fund and send it to:236 Henry Sanford Road, Bridgewater, CT 06752. Include a note with the check relating to the Goslin/Nix fire.