THINK RACING IS GLAMOROUS? THINK AGAIN!
The X world is irate because the Thoroughbred, War Envoy was found emaciated and waiting to die in a muddy pen in California.
War Envoy is a famous winner because he was once owned by the Coolmore family and trained at Ballydoyle by Aidan O’Brien. He won at Royal Ascot and has travelled the world for races.
The Racing/breeding industry wants everyone to pretend that this outcome is an outlier that doesn’t happen to Thoroughbreds. That is not true.
The thoroughbred industry breeds so many horses that it is impossible to ever find enough good homes for horses once they have finished racing – or if they never make it to the track. As their tried and true method of slaughtering horses has been revealed, they are continuing to slaughter and they are quietly discarding them to anyone who will take them.
The racing industry is trying to convince all participants and the rest of us, that they retrain and rehome horses.
There are not enough homes.
They are aware there are not enough homes and think that people are too stupid to realise.
Horses starving like War Envoy are all too common. However, most do not have a famous story so no one takes any notice. Although the racing industry wants to promote #lovethehorse stories like this don’t help.
The business model of the racing/breeding industry means they want people to buy a horse, spend money on training and racing and when they are not winning, throw them away and start again.
The racing industry like to emphasise that fillies have RESIDUAL value. That means that instead of discarding them, they can become an industrial uterus, breeding foal after foal until they become too old. Then they get quietly sent to the knackery.
The images of War Envoy looking emaciated are from the Kentucky Human Society Equine on Facebook.
#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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