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.)
Bella Flora at Mahoning
Jess Rock It at Turf
Talented Lino at Charles Town (race replay scrubbed)
Ray’s Empire at Mahoning
Louisiana Mystery at Remington
Willow in the Wind at Santa Anita
Fly to Da Moon at Sunland
Turbo Fire at Tampa Bay
Golddiggendevil at Fair Grounds
First Love at Fonner
Shez Phat at Louisiana
A Streakin Prada at Sunland (also fell)
E Z Bourbon at Aqueduct
Took Charge at Los Alamitos
Came Up Roses at Oaklawn
Geebeesbigboy at Sunland
Sequin Lady at Sunland
Early Delivery at Tampa Bay
And then there were these, not reported as ambulanced, but…
Eve of Eve “fell, DNF” at Fair Grounds
Sue’s Little Zing “fell over fallen rival [above], DNF” at Fair Grounds
(For any new confirmed kills during the week, please see our running 2026 list.)
The story of the microchip in the food, and the food being horse meat, is ghastly and revolting! But this story would never have come to light without the microchip. (Eating horse meat is part of the culture of several different countries.)
It doesn’t sound logical for an injured racehorse to be donated to a “riding club” unless the “riding club” owner/ operator is also a horse dealer that will do anything to make a fast buck on some horses which means selling them to the slaughterhouse.
What riding club has thousands of dollars to pay for veterinary bills to take care of an injured horse? Some injuries render a horse “useless” for riding, let alone racing.
From Die Welt, which is a major German national newspaper based in Berlin. “A customer at a soup kitchen finds a foreign object in his meal. Lab tests reveal it’s the microchip of a former racehorse. This has consequences for the former owner. An object found in a dish at a soup kitchen in Turkey has turned out to be a microchip belonging to a former racehorse. A customer at the soup kitchen in the Mediterranean city of Mersin reported a foreign object in his food, according to several media reports. Tests conducted by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture identified the object as the electronic identification chip of “Smart Latch,” a four-year-old English racehorse that had competed at the racetrack in the neighboring province of Adana, as reported by the private news agency Demirören. Laboratory tests later confirmed that the dish contained meat from the same animal. Authorities fined the horse’s owner, a businessman, 132,108 Turkish lira [$3,000]. However, this was not due to the unusual discovery itself, but rather because the owner had failed to officially report the relocation of the injured horse after its racing career, as Demirören further explained. The former owner stated that he had retired the animal from racing after its last race in October due to a leg injury and donated it to a riding club in the neighboring province of Osmaniye. Speaking to Demirören, the man said he was “devastated” when he learned of the incident from the authorities. How and when the animal was slaughtered was initially unclear.
The horse’s owner told investigators that the mare was donated to a riding club after her racing career ended, but authorities believe the horse never reached the club and may have been illegally slaughtered and sold as beef.” Horse meat is not normally allowed to enter the food supply in Turkey, particularly for registered racehorses. “Devastated?” But the horse was family. . .
Have any of you read of a microchip being discovered in a municipal soup kitchen in Mersin, Turkey? We follow a bloggers website of Heather Clemenceau. In the course of someone eating their sauteed meat the diner found a microchip! The chip was found to be of a 3 year old filly that had been raced in October 2025! The fillies name was Smart Latch & won 3 races. Needless to say there was an investigation as to why the horse meat ended up in the food supply. Makes us glad were plant based eaters like our horses! Without that chip having survived cooking & the diners discovery of it no one would have ever known what happened Smart Latch. Racing`s cruelty & slaughter disposal system of unwanted horses is worldwide.