Posted on 05/21/2016 11:19:36 AM PDT by blueyon
The Preakness started off in a strange and tragic way. The winning horse of the first race at Pimlico Race Course died on its walk back to the barn.
Homeboykris won the race by a half-length. But after having his picture taken in the winner’s circle, he collapsed and died.
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You should research the Nurse Mare Foals atrocities.
Nurse Mares have to constantly be bred to produce the thorough bred foals. It has to be live insemination, no AI. The fowls are torn from the mothers after birth, so the mares can be shipped to stud farm to breed again.
The foals are often slaughtered in favor of the more expensive prospective prize winner foals.
The four year old filly Pramedya had broken threw the starting gate and was checked out. Everything looked fine they said. Jockeys in the turf race said the horse was running fine but then it took a bad step and fell.
First, TBs have never been summarily culled like Greyhounds were. Most find a nice way to live, even when they weren’t that good. Some merely have bloodlines that save them for fame in the stud.
But you are doing a non-sequitur.
The horse died off the track.
Many have tragically died just getting too happy and uppity off track. Three Ring, Free House, pop into mind.
Yes, people are capable of feeling compassion for animals as well as for humans!
But foals are slaughtered and abandoned after Nurse Mare’s get bred by Thoroughbreds/Prize Winners, etc. Look up Dirty little secret of Nurse Mare’s and their foals and what happens to them.
I’m a lifelong horse lover/trainer/owner. It is very sad to see this happen. But horses love what they do, as do humans, and I don’t believe in stopping animals or children from doing what they love to protect them.
I was just informed the owner’s of Barbaro are the same owners of the four year old that took a bad step today.
People drop dead everyday for unexpected reasons like heart attacks and strokes. So do animals. Race horses are professional athletes in prime condition. Even so they can have a heart attack or burst an artery. Sad but not unnatural.
Those adopted greyhounds have health problems, according to two co-workers who adopt them.
I love animals so much nobody should own them...
It’s a good thing to take in an animal in need, if you’re inclined to do so. For most, “ownership” is a mere formality, they become family members. If no one did this, the animals would be put down. It’s a good thing.
Not only that, but Barbaro's career-ending injury, which would ultimately lead to his being put down in January of 2007, occurred in the 2006 Preakness.
“Barbaro (April 29, 2003 – January 29, 2007) was an American thoroughbred racehorse who decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death.
On May 20, 2006, Barbaro ran in the Preakness Stakes as a heavy favorite, but, after he false-started, he fractured three bones in and around the fetlock of his right hind leg. The injury ruined any chance of a Triple Crown in 2006 and ended his racing career. The next day, he underwent surgery at the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania for his injuries.
In July he developed laminitis in his left rear leg. He was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent five further operations, and his prognosis varied during an exceptionally long stay in the Equine Intensive Care Unit at the New Bolton Center. While his right hind leg eventually healed, a final risky procedure on it proved futile because the colt soon developed further laminitis in both front legs. His veterinarians and owners concluded that he could not be saved, and Barbaro was euthanized on January 29, 2007.[1]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaro
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The other horse that died today at Pimlico was a NINE-year old gelding. Because geldings obviously can't be used for breeding they often run them til they drop.
I can’t speak to thoroughbreds, but harness-racing horses that don’t make the cut are frequently bought by the Amish and used for their buggies.
I can only speak to the ones around here in MI, but they sure aren’t treated the best!
Pounding down paved roads with steel shoes on tears their legs up in short order. Not to mention how slippery they are in winter.
Rubber shoes would alleviate a lot of the pounding and be more sure-footed, but I’m told they “cost too much”.
And standing tied outside a store while all sweated up without a blanket in winter isn’t kind either.
I’d like to do the same to them.
Any kid of mine knew better than to put a wet horse away without rubbing them down in cold weather.
Let the animals run wild and free; instead of family members, they’d be emergency rations.../s
*CHUG*
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