This, according to the Gaming Commission, for Sanctity at Saratoga (yes they’re still training there) Tuesday: “suffered an open [through the skin] tibial fracture at the 7/8 pole – euthanasia was decided upon because of the severity of the injury.” This poor boy was just two and being prepped for his first race. Chief exploiter: Bill Mott.
According to the chart for the 4th at Horseshoe Saturday, Favorite Lady 123 took a “bad step” and was transported off in the ambulance. We now know this young girl, also just two, is dead. From the Commission: “had to be humanely euthanized in the barn.” Complicit in the kill: Flag Ranch, Steve Zamler, Tim Eggleston, Rolando Del Rio Pina.
I was told the only reason they race babies is for the sheer greed and desperation of the racing sector of the gambling industry.
If racing were at all finacially stable, even the “Epstein class” horse racing groups would take the time to let horses mature. They can certainly afford it. And the minnows in racing would follow behind them and copy them. That’s obviously not the case.
I know none of them, rich or poor, care anyway how they get their money, and who pays, so long as they get it. So long as they “win.” But it’s very possible this early baby racing and killing proves the industry is headed to the morgue. You’d never know it from the heavy marketing propaganda that comes straight out of Hollywood, though.
All these poor young horses being injured & passing well before their natural time. So sad! We have horses here that are 26 & can still be ridden & can gallop freely in our 17 1/2 acre field of their own volition.