New York City, NY – A 15-year-old carriage horse named Lady collapsed and died on her way back to her stable on Tuesday. According to sources, the Standardbred mare had only been working in the city for two months.
Christina Hansen, with the TWU Local 100, tells NBC New York, “Lady was 15 years old. Prime of life. Seemingly nothing wrong with her. Just came to the city in the last two months, less than two months ago. Clean bill of health.”
Adding, “Unfortunately, animals, including humans and horses, sometimes die suddenly and unexpectedly. We insist that a board-certified pathologist at a prestigious university perform a full necropsy to determine the cause of death.”
Animal welfare advocates plan to protest the carriage horse industry on Wednesday in front of the Clinton Stables, where Lady was headed when she collapsed and died.
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I’ve been protesting this cruel industry for decades. I spent hours every weekend trying to educate the apathetic public. Many of those drivers are illegal aliens from Ireland and shouted vulgarities at us trying to spread the truth about this cruel industry that cares nothing about the horses and cares only about money.
I saw horses drop dead, working during very high and very low temperatures with no rest or water.
NYC mayors are crap! Bloomberg, deblasio and Adams, all a disaster.
How can people still partake in this cruel out dated tradition? Selfish, greed pure and simple.
This industry needs shutdown. It’s horribly cruel to those horses that are subjected to it. If the public stopped patronizing these creeps then it would come to an end. My heart breaks for all horses that are purchased for this use. It’s a nightmare to them.
This needs to be banned!!! NOW!!! Why in the heck do people think that they have to have a carriage ride anyway?? Does it make them feel like royalty?? These horses health are not taken into consideration at all. It is all being done because of the money that can be made. Let the people rent bicycles and let them use their own power and strength to get around. Let them sit in traffic behind cares in the heat breathing in those fumes from the exhausts. Let them see what it is like to have to use energy in the heat. STOP KILLING THESE HORSES!! Too many of them are collapsing and dying on the streets because of this business. I will not visit a single city that utilizes these horses as a form of transportation to get around the city! NONE!!!
I do not know how many times and how many years we marched with New York Class and other horse saving organizations to BAN horse drawn carriages forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This insane policy for abusing and killing carriage horses never ends because the ones in charge are very evil masters against work horses and they aim at killing all working and carriage horses in New York City! Mc Keever and all guilty abusers of horses and all animals work the horses to death and then gain more and more cash laughing all the way to the bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a fact of life in New York City!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every year more and more horses dead and it is NOT an honorable trade at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only animal killers want to keep this going!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One day another horrific accident will happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lady died and collapsed as she was under physical streess ! They died of exhaustion and stress ! There are good valid reasons and this legitimate legal beating of horses needs to stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I will be in conference with the new MAYOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not one MAYOR has been kind to animals!!!!!!!!11 None of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Naomi Semeniuk
Could you use a few more exclamation points?
Worked to death. How much more cruelty is it going to take for this to end. Carriage horses should be banned everywhere
this needs to stop. it has been so hot and humid this summer I bet she wasn’t getting rest or water while out there carrying lazy people around who are too lazy to walk cause it’s hot outside. so they make one sngle horse carry 6 humans around. sick.