Last week, the following horses were injured so badly they required the “equine ambulance” to get off the track. While fates remain unknown at this time, we will eventually get death confirmations on many, if not most, through our FOIA reporting. (Note: “bled” indicates pulmonary hemorrhage.)
Running Wrangler at Turf
Ronamo at Turf
Chapter and Verse at Mahoning
Gourmet at Charles Town
Miss Shane at Fair Grounds
Awesome Magic at Oaklawn
Balandeen Storm at Oaklawn (also fell)
Severn Run at Penn
Dangerous Leigh at Remington
Adverse Selection at Santa Anita
Duke of Carthania at Fair Grounds (also fell)
Dontsplashthepot at Gulfstream
Exhalting at Los Alamitos
Monero at Sunland
Nas Coronas Effort at Sunland (also “bled”)
Chase This King at Turf
And then there were these, not reported as ambulanced, but…
C V Dynamic “bled” at Mahoning
Outkissed “bled” at Turfway
(For any new confirmed kills during the week, please see our running 2026 list.)
Wanda..their other word is “disposed of”.
Wanda, How absolutely horrendous that horses that could be participants in other pursuits are taken straight to slaughter from the track! In 2004 we had horses shipped from Portland Meadows to Korea! Because of incorrect paper work those horses were slaughtered also still with their racing plates on! The grooms at the barn they left from were all crying when they found this out later. Some left the racing industry & went to other equine facilities besides racing.
If C V DYNAMIC and OUTKISSED were in South Korea instead of in the United States, they would without question be “culled” (immediately) as in the comment made by “Big Heart Racing” in a previous post.
Racehorses that bleed from the lungs at South Korean race tracks are immediately removed from the racetrack and hauled to the nearest slaughterhouse to the best of my knowledge and belief.
In South Korea, the slaughterhouse would be a relatively short distance away from the racetrack. This is what it means to “cull” an animal.
Remembering the name Big Heart Racing and the terminology “cull” is now ingrained in my mind as being very cruelly ironic.
What love (🤮) these people have for their cherished “industry” and bank accounts; the individual horses not so much.