SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- A program that offers therapeutic horse rides to people with disabilities has closed because it doesn't have enough money to continue, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.

EquiFriends, with stables along Highway 9 near Snohomish, was forced to lay off its staff and close its doors after about 28 people said they would come to a Saturday fundraiser that normally draws more than 200 and generates up to $100,000 for the program.

Riders paid tuition, but the money covered only a quarter of the cost of the program, officials told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Rick Price.

Eighty-five riders, many of them children, used the program's services each week. Participants included people with autism, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and other conditions.

People who run the program are trying to find homes for the horses.

For more information about the program, or to offer your help go to their Web site at www.equifriends.org.