Through a FOIA request to the Texas Racing Commission, I have confirmed the following kills at that state’s tracks last year (this is part 2; part 1 here – 27 kills in total). Obviously (as you will see), detail was sorely lacking. Of more import, a single stall death and a single training death in Texas in the entire second half of 2025 is, in a word, unbelievable.
Mr. T’s Thirsty, Jul 5, Lone Star S – “backside illness, euthanized” (last raced Jun 7)
Audrey’s Music, Jul 10, Lone Star T – “catastrophic injury – fatal”
Larry’s Legend, Jul 11, Lone Star R – “catastrophic injury – fatal” (51st race)
Temple, Jul 12, Lone Star R – “catastrophic injury – fatal” (47th race)
Arturo, Jul 12, Retama R – “catastrophic injury – fatal” (two years old, first race)
To Hot to Freight, Jul 20, Gillespie R – “injured, euthanized on track” (two years old)
Good Candy Jess, Aug 7, Retama R – “extreme exhaustion…euthanized in stall”
Chickies Menace, Sep 5, Lone Star R – “catastrophic injury – fatal”
Rr Favorite Ferarri, Sep 13, Lone Star R – “fracture, rupture” (two years old, first race)
Rock Candy Dani, Sep 18, Lone Star R – “catastrophic injury…euthanized on track”
Good Fire Candy, Oct 31, Lone Star R (euth Nov 2) – “trauma, progressive nerve damage”
Since Jan 1, 2014, when Horseracing Wrongs began the unprecedented work of reporting kills in the U.S. horseracing industry, 365 (that we know about) horses have perished at Texas tracks. That’s 365 beautiful, intelligent, sensitive beings sacrificed for nothing more than $2 bets and frivolous entertainment. Are we not better than this, America?
The chart notes for GOOD CANDY JESS, a Quarter Horse filly, indicate that in this 300-YARD DASH she dualed, bore in, bumped, hung, placed second, and equine ambulanced…
This was her 3rd and final race on August 7, 2025.
I wasn’t familiar with the term ‘hung’ in the context of a horse race so I looked it up. It basically means either the horse doesn’t want to pass the leaders in the race possibly due to the pecking order OR, I believe in this case, this QH Filly could not pass the leader because she had nothing left to give.
As you know, in horse racing, most jockeys and trainers don’t care about the horse in the long run; they only care about their own paycheck in the heat of the moment. You know these people have “the kill the goose that laid the golden eggs” mentality.
It sounds logical to me that the trainer juiced/ doped her up and the jockey relentlessly whipped and most likely shocked her to run faster than she ran in her first two races. Deplorable mistreatment of horses this is!
Good Candy Jess – extreme exhaustion, euthanized in stall. I would really like an explanation for THAT particular entry. Not that I can’t believe that this archaic, morally and ethically bankrupt industry is incapable of literally running a horse to death, since they can starve a horse to death in a barn full of people and let a horse burn to death in her stall with a barn full of people without a single attempt at intervention.
Damn, Hell can’t come soon enough for these racing industry dregs of society.
These young and underdeveloped colts and fillies in the Lone Star state were never given a fair chance at life.
I can only imagine how many dead racehorses there are for each racehorse that lives to be over 20 years old. For example, SILVER CHARM was born in 1994, was trained by “Teflon Bob” no less, and is, miraculously, now 32 years old being cared for and living out his last days at Old Friends. (I say ‘miraculously’ due to the fact that Bob Baffert has a track record of killing lots of horses. He has killed 75 horses the last time I checked which was over a year ago by now.)
If it could be known how many horses bred for racing were born in 1994 and were fatally injured at racetracks or disposed of anywhere in between, including being shipped to slaughterhouses inside the borders of the United States, from 1994 to the year 2000 in this example, prior to their SIXTH BIOLOGICAL BIRTHDAY, it would be an astronomical number.
I perceive the widespread killing and disposal of horses bred for and used as gambling chips to be much greater than most people will ever know for certain since there has been, and continues to be, so much secrecy, lack of transparency, incompetent keeping of certain facts, lack of disclosure, juggling the numbers with “brilliant” mathematical equations to distort the facts, (in other words, baffle with bullshit), and outright deliberate hiding of the true extent of how, and how many, horses are used and abused in the racing industry and the fact that there are so many “also-rans” in horse racing.