The Queensland greyhound adoption program gets almost $1 million a year, programs rehoming racehorses are now lucky to get $10,000

A volunteer organisation that rehomes standardbred racehorses was forced to close its doors due to lack of funding just weeks before 7.30 aired footage of thoroughbreds being sent to slaughter.

Melissa Bell has volunteered for 12 years running the Standardbred Association of Queensland's (SAQ) adoption program, which has been finding homes for former trotters since 2002.

"We've been rehoming around 80 to 130 a year, and we've almost hit 1,200 that we've actually found homes for," she told 7.30.

But on October 1 this year, they had to shut down the horse adoption program because of a lack of time and funding.

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Article written by: Lucy Carter and Kirsten Robb