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Horse racing is a blood sport....although horseman wish it wasn't...XOXO
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[quote:#OneLove XOXO 78117970:MV80MTc4ODU3Xzc1OTgxMTExX0U1M0IyM0E5] [quote:oniongrass:MV80MTc4ODU3Xzc1OTc2MjU3Xzc1RjU1MkE5] I'm still amazed that they can't fix a horse's broken leg. Horse goes down, breaks one of those very thin thoroughbred legs, and they shoot it dead. Why can't they drug it up, put it in a coma, do the surgery to fix the leg, then when it heals, wake the horse up and at least use it for stud? Some of these horses are worth millions, far more than the cost of doing all that. [/quote] What people are willing to do for profit (collect the insurance money) is very different then what people will do for love...(adopt the injured animal, rehab it, and retire it to pasture at a minimum cost of thousands for the vet bills, and over $350 a month for care of it for the next 30 years.) Most owners own over 50 horses at once, so 50 x $350 a month for the next 30 years to comfortably retire a racehorse that may or may not have made you a lot of money is too much to ask of them, so they sell it instead to slaughter. They get a few hundred dollars maybe, but they no longer have to pay vet bills. When they put it down on the track like that I guarantee you they collect a fat insurance check. Versus retiring it would cost a small fortune. If you loved the horse it would make sense to retire it. "Strollin Willie" was a horse that had a broken cannon bone then was raced like that with a broken cannon bone, and then was rescued by Soul Horse Texas from a kill pen where he was left with a broken cannon bone to board a long hot ride to Mexico and to be brutally slaughtered like the rest of the horses in the ABC special on horse slaughter that aired last week. Here is "Strollin Willie" after he was rescued by Soul Horse (still with a broken cannon bone), his prognosis was grim, but look he looks happy he doesn't look like he is "suffering" and in the same agony the horse racing community makes you think it is so they do not feel guilty colleting that fat insurance check. Link https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068275803119603714 That is with just standard care donated by poor people. Imagine if horse racing had pools, and physical therapy and mandatory rehab and rehoming for ALL of it's athletes? With the 7 billion in tax payer dollars horse racing gets this should already be a given. Yet we know it is not, the horses get killed instead of rehabbed...they end up in kill pens instead of green pastures... #EndHorseRacing these bastards don't deserve any animals. XOXO [/quote]
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Kentucky's own Courier Journal calls Horse Racing a blood sport...
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