Arcadia, CA – On Tuesday morning, a top racehorse dropped dead during a training run at Santa Anita Park. Practical Move, the Santa Anita Derby winner, was returning from a morning gallop, and suffered an “apparent cardiac event.”
Though the horse was promptly attended to by veterinary staff, he could not be saved. His rider was not injured in the fall.
Just three days ago, Geaux Rocket Ride suffered a “career-ending” injury to his front leg while training at Santa Anita. On Monday morning, his owner Tweeted an update following the horse’s surgery:
“Rocket is having an unexpected response to the surgery and isn’t recovering as we hoped. He appears to be in no pain and is eating. Our boy is still fighting hard so we will keep fighting for him. Under Dr. (Ryan) Carpenter’s recommendation, he is moving to another facility better equipped to handle his post-op recovery.”
The Santa Anita Track has faced harsh criticism for the number of catastrophic horse injuries that have happened there. Track officials claim that Santa Anita is the safest track in North America. Last year, 12 horses died at the track, and a staggering 42 horses died there in 2019.
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Where’s another petition? Some race tracks have closed down but it takes a lot of political push. Keep up the pressure to close all tracks down!
THERE HAVE BEEN TOO MANY DEATHS OF RACE HORSES AT SANTA ANITA RACE TRACK SO CLOSE IT DOWN NOW BEFORE TOO MANY RACE HORSES ARE KILLED
A Healthy young horse doesnt have a heart attack what did they shoot him up with?
It is not uncommon for a horse, pushed beyond physical limitations, to suffer cardiac arrest. TBreds are trained to race way to young. Their bones/growth plates are not fully mature. Hence broken legs, ligament, muscle, etc is stressed. The horses are pushed far to fast. It might be performance enhancing drugs but if caught penalties are severe for most trainers.
Perhaps we should see the people who are betting on the horses out there running. Now that I would pay for.
Please close down these tracks that are killing these beautiful horses.
It is not fair to the horses that they are being forced to run on an unsafe ground.
Then you must consider the plight of the vast majority of Amish buggy horses. Worked to hard, underfed, poor quality feed, little professional veterinary care, cruel handling and driven right into the ground. There are thousands in Amish communities and thousands more broken down abused and starved Amish horses dumped at horse auctions usually sold to kill buyers and sent to Mexico for slaughter. The Amish are above the law when it comes to blatant animal abuse.
Shut the place down…and the industry. Perhaps if the jockeys were dying they’d be more assertive. Instead they use animals who don’t have a choice and discard them.
if the race tracks are closed down, the thousands of brood mares, babies and who knows how many other horses considered “useless” will either be sold to the butchers or “hurt” so bad owners and trainers can collect insurance fees or abandoned. Breeding has to be curtailed and horses should not be raced until they are 4 years old Two year olds are only designated their age on the first of the new year – so many being trained and galloped are only 1 year old whose bones are not yet fully developed for the pounding they receive. Strong rules need to be enforced.
When horse racing was closed down in Michigan the Michigan State Fair was shut down and funding for 4-H was curtailed. Horse racing funded it all.
I am totally against animal cruelty of any kind. If I had my way, I would treat their heartless owners in the same way and bring them to their knees.
Flogging the owners is another way. Give them a taste of their own medicine
Time this kind of pleasure must stop now and forever. Animals killed for human pleasures is a absolute NO GO!
Please don’t let these horses suffer and die.
THIS SICKENING CRUELTY MUST END NOW!!!! And all the evil cruel people involved in this disgusting business deserve to rot in hell!!!