This for Ticket Worthy at Finger Lakes Saturday, in the words of the Gaming Commission: “Horse fractured right shoulder during a.m. exercise, vanned home, euthanized due to poor prognosis.” Ticket was two years old; he was being prepped for his first race.
Broken shoulder & vanned home!? Think of the extreme pain that poor horse was in! Taken away from track to be euthanized to avoid another ” Official” on track fatality/ injury. Only 2? He should have been able to live many years longer like many of our 20+ year old horses in a herd environment. Get rid of all the subsidies for this “Crooked, Crummy, Gamboling game.
Finger Lakes needs to be shut down. Nobody is in the stands. People go there for the casino. Period. These poor horses are suffering and dying so that their money-grubbing owners can collect their paltry payoffs and go to McDonalds on their way home.