The Shocking Stories Of Horse Racing Deaths

fmdog44

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I watched HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel tonight and horse racing deaths was one of the year's stories they included for this show.
So here goes:
There are two thousand horse deaths each year from racing and training in the U.S.
Four were killed in one week at Santa Anita track and 24 in a three month period.
Santa Anita averages 50 horse deaths per year.
The last story was about a horse that did not "come in" (that means it did not finish first, second or third paying money) at a track I believe they said was in West Virginia. The horses name was Bridget Malonie. After the race the horse was killed. Not because it was injured, just killed. The horse was spotted a few days after in a landfill.
Keep in mind we can go to jail for mistreating a house pet yet, horse racing gets away with murder on what can be called a mass scale.
 

That's because when animal cruelty doesn't generate any profit, it's a crime. When animal cruelty makes money--as in horse racing-- it's perfectly OK.
People who attend horse races are knowingly supporting animal cruelty. Same as people who attend bullfights & rodeos.
I have a cousin who owns racing horses. He put it this way (quite honestly): "It costs just as much to support a horse that's winning as a horse that's not winning. That's why they are put down when they stop winning....they're useless at that point.
 
fmdog44 said:
I watched HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel tonight and horse racing deaths was one of the year's stories they included for this show.
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I witnessed one go down in a race last year, sad...
 

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They have been doing the same to dogs for years at the Greyhound tracks.

Years back, I sent letters to the Governors in the states that still have tracks and urged them to set up new laws not to kill the dogs, but to expand their program to allow for more adoptions.

Greyhound Deaths
 
I had no idea that many horses died at the track. It's pretty much the same at dog tracks. I had a barber, who wasn't the most upstanding citizen in the town. All the jockeys at the track went to him. According to the barber, they said the races were all fixed. They would tell him, who was going to win the race next Thursday. Apparently, winning at the track wasn't the only way to make money off of racing, but I don't know what it is. I do understand that they do lots of things to the animals to make them run.
 

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