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Racehorse death stats

FROM Tuesday's Horse
July 2024

It is disgusting and makes us sick scrolling past all the names of these horses who were so brutally killed. Then there are the ones who are thrown away by horse racing who often end up at the slaughterhouse — after what little they had left in their bodies had been used up by someone else.

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National Geographic writes:

From 2009 to 2021, more than 7,200 horses died or were euthanized nationwide because of racing-related illness and injuries, according to The Jockey Club, which maintains the Thoroughbred registry. Historically, many racehorse deaths have resulted from limb injuries, followed by respiratory, digestive, and multiorgan system disorders.

Historically, many racehorse deaths have resulted from limb injuries, followed by respiratory, digestive, and multiorgan system disorders. In 2019, when a then-unprecedented 42 horses died at Santa Anita Park in California, most were due to limb injuries.

Racehorse deaths at Churchill Downs in April and May 2023
was higher than that of Santa Anita Park in 2019

The rate of deaths at Churchill Downs in April and May 2023 is higher than that of Santa Anita Park in 2019, according to the animal welfare group Animal Wellness Action.

The Associated Press tells us:

US horse racing deaths increased slightly in 2023 from 2022.

In April 2024, The Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Authority said in its annual report released Wednesday there were 1.32 deaths per 1,000 starts last year, up from 1.25 the previous year.

How sick it all is. How tragic it all is. And not a single soul working in horse racing has demanded that the killing end. They would rather kill horses than their careers. But that is another story for another day — maybe.

If you are unaware, or need to see the sickening number of brutal deaths perpetrated upon racehorses in America to believe it, here is where you need to go. Take a look at Patrick Battuello’s Killed, 2024 list.

It is disgusting and makes us sick scrolling past all the names of these horses who were so brutally killed. Then there are the ones who are thrown away by horse racing who often end up at the slaughterhouse — after what little they had left in their bodies had been used up by someone else.

It is done primarily to feed Italians and the French who consider horse meat a delicacy.

This country will never be anything but a third world country to our view until it protects its horses from the horrors of racing and the slaughterhouse and all the dreadful suffering that goes with it. There has been absolutely no change, and no progress since we began defending horses in 2007.

Posted on All-Creatures.org: July 29, 2024
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