Eleven Horses Ambulanced Off, Another 'Found Dead in His Stall' on Preakness Day
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Patrick Battuello, Horse Racing Wrongs
May 2015

This is the horseracing they don’t want you to see. Please stop supporting this sordid industry.

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On the same day that American Pharoah won the $1.5 million Preakness at Pimlico, these 11 horses were 'ambulanced' off other American tracks (source: Equibase). It is highly likely that at least half are dead:

Furrever, Albuquerque
Silverhill, Albuquerque
Diamond of Blue, Arlington
Good Tickled, Canterbury
Swiss Tart, Charles Town
Misleading Lies, Finger Lakes
Jade Effort, Lone Star
Tribute to Holly, Louisiana
Ally Hawk, Mountaineer
Touch of a Poet, Prairie
Streaks in the Dirt, Sam Houston

And these:

Estrella Royal Rap, Fairmount, “returned bleeding from her nostril”
Joint Decision, Parx, “stumbled badly,” DNF
Lovmeister, Penn, “pulled up lame”
Svindhal, Pimlico, “fell,” DNF
Remembering Pete, Sam Houston, “stumbled badly to knees”

And finally – a world away from Bob Costas and the NBC cameras, a 3-year-old yet-to-be-raced colt named Mr Reid was, according to the NYS Gaming Commission, “found dead in his stall” at Aqueduct.

This is the horseracing they don’t want you to see. Please stop supporting this sordid industry.


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