"For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, chief veterinarian Jose Garcia told The Associated Press after checking clinic log books going back seven years. Unlike on the U.S. mainland, where many former racehorses are retrained for riding or sent to special refuges, the animals have few options in this U.S. Caribbean territory. Owners say caring for and feeding a losing racehorse is too expensive." Here is the link:
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"For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, chief veterinarian Jose Garcia told The Associated Press after checking clinic log books going back seven years. Unlike on the U.S. mainland, where many former racehorses are retrained for riding or sent to special refuges, the animals have few options in this U.S. Caribbean territory. Owners say caring for and feeding a losing racehorse is too expensive." Here is the link: Link
Comments (31)
Actually, they kill horses here also.
Namaste!
@lacemagicke - Yeah, I was gonna say that's really not that different than what we do, but I guess it's more fun to pretend we have higher moral standards.
Well, fair enough. Though, they should see if anyone else wants the horses, first.
I'd take them all. No horse deserves to die just because it can't win.
I'll bet some families would love a racehorse even if it doesn't win.
glue might be the only cheap resource thanks to them!
lunatic barbarians
What a waste.
Well it is more humane than letting them starve to death.
@lacemagicke - we do?
aww! poor horsies!
quick get peta!
@Infamous_Dewey - yep, we do.
8 belles, anyone? we do the exact same thing here.
poor horsey T-T
@VoicesoftheRain - Huge difference between killing a lethally wounded horse on the track and taking the healthy, sound 5th place winner behind the shed and injecting it full of barbituates.
That's horrible
isn't it a waste of their money to raise or buy a horse for a horserace and then kill it after it didn't win? that's just not right at all.
BAH!!!
Okay, where's PETA?
racehorses are essentially a commodity. let me put it this way, if the nascar is irreparable do they keep it and continue to invest funds into it? perhaps the problem is in fact the idea that anything can be capitalized on and commodified, and this is a system within which the problems of such acts become very apparent because a living being is included.
Why not just sell it to horseback riders who do it for leisure?
my god...
We didn't kill my 7 year old; we just sold him... I still regret that. How could they rationalize killing?
This makes no sense at all. Instead of killing the animal because it didn't win, couldn't they just train some more? Practice? I'm almost positive that if the owner didn't want the "tainted" horse, he or she could sell it and make some money atleast. To me, that'd be a win-win situation, right? Not killing an innocent animal, and making some dough at the same time? Why would you just kill it? Jesus that pisses me off something awful. What the in the hell is wrong with those people?!
That is horrible to kill those horses just because they don't win. Couldn't they sell them or something...or do anything else? Why do they have to kill them?