FLORESCENT STAR DIES & HER JOCKEY FRACTURES HIS NECK
Victorian racing has been rocked by the third fall in as many weeks on a Saturday metropolitan race card in Melbourne, which claimed the life of racehorse Florescent Star and hospitalised jockey Teo Nugent.
Florescent Star was euthanised after severe injuries suffered when she clipped heels and fell head first into the turf, throwing Nugent to the ground during the listed 1200-metre Abell Stakes.
We spend a great deal of time and energy educating racing fans that when they bet, either on or off the track or support racing in any way, they contribute to the death of horses. Deaths on the track and even those horses who never make it to the track die too.
AND if they don’t die on the track, or during their racing career, there is a high probability that they will end up on a truck and shipped to be slaughtered for human consumption.
The racing industry has a word for their discards, they use the word “wastage“. Yes, really. The gorgeous horses they claim to love and respect are referred to as wastage when they are no longer wanted or needed.
Having said that, horses are not the only ones who suffer horrendous life-altering injuries or death — jockeys are killed too.
August 2019:
Australian horse racing industry figures show 20 jockeys have been killed in the country since 2000, 17 of them during races and three during track work. In February, a Victoria state trainer died, also after falling from a horse during a training run.
AND then you have those like horse trainer Gai Waterhouse - see video below - who states "Accidents happen in any sport".
MOHM: The difference when it comes to horse racing is that horses do not have a choice. Human athletes have a choice as to whether to train and compete, horses do NOT.
She seems to think that "People have become so weak and prissy now a days".
Well if it is "weak and prissy" to care about horses AND jockeys then we freely admit that we are "weak and prissy".
#MOHM NEEDS YOUR HELP!
We’ve been threatened by those in the horse racing industry and those who benefit from horse slaughter more times than we can count.
But we are not going away.
We are going to persist until horse slaughter no longer exists for any purpose within Australia -- and until the horse racing industry makes drastic changes.
We are going to continue our hands-on work to offer lifelong sanctuary to as many horses as possible. We generally have 20 at just one of our locations - at any given time.
We have the acreage to take on more horses as financial support allows.
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