Preakness often makes for strange day at Pimlico

Yeah thats nuts I remember that. I think Big Brown this year is the real deal. I don't see any horses catching this big racing machine

handicapper Joe

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The HSUS Facts on US Horse Slaughter

***Which kinds of horses are slaughtered?

Horses slaughtered include (losing race horses) lame or ill, riding school, camp horses, pergnant mares, foals -"byproducts" of (PMU), drug Premarin®. Ponies, mules, donkeys as well.

HSUS investigators witnessed horses purchased for slaughter in good health, bought for a few hundred dollars. Horses of all ages & breeds are slaughtered, from draft to miniatures.
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***How many horses are slaughtered each year?

(Tens of thousands) of live horses are transported across the border to
Mexico and Canada for slaughter.
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***Who eats horse meat?
The largest markets are France, Belgium, Holland, Japan, and Italy.

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***How do unwanted, surplus horses end up at slaughterhouses?

Most horses destined for slaughter are sold at livestock auctions or sales. Often, terrified horses and ponies are crammed together and transported to slaughter in double-deck trucks designed for cattle and pigs. Some horses arrive at the slaughterhouse seriously injured or dead.
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***How are the horses killed?

Highly alert horses are stabbed multiple times in the neck with "puntilla knife" to sever spinal cords. The horse is conscious, is "not" stunning method. It paralyzes, leaving horses twitching on the ground, unable to move or breathe, death from suffocation or blood loss & dismemberment. With US export of horses to slaughter over 300%, undercover footage shows live horses dragged, whipped, crammed in trucks in 110 tmp to a horrific form of slaughter in MX & CN.
Conditions in slaughterhouses—stressful & extremely frightening.
**********What is The Humane Society of the United States doing to protect horses?

The HSUS continues to assist states in passage of effective laws to govern treatment of horses sold for slaughter within their borders.
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More Facts on Horse Slaughter:
http://www.hsus.org/horses_equines/issues/get...

jsk42069 wrote:

Yeah thats nuts I remember that. I think Big Brown this year is the real deal. I don't see any horses catching this big racing machine
handicapper Joe
www.handicapperdream.com

Alex S. on Yankee Bravo and the Belmont Casino drive
BB has problems Kent not that sure

The irony is cruel: Eight bells (the nautical term for end of shift, sometimes used in an obituary) for Eight Belles. It is time to signal eight bells for horse racing. Barbaro was a rarity in the care given after an injury. Ferdinand (1987 horse of the year and 1986 Derby winner) is more typical - turned into ground (meat) instead of just run into the ground like Eight Belles. The crop in racing is what the electric shock is in rodeo. Regardless of the apparent damage to the horse, it's still unwanted and it's still cruel. Why is it that Eight Belles was killed because she couldn't be put into an ambulance, but the "caregivers" had no problem putting her corpse into a hearse? This sport of kings is an emperor with no clothes. The theme for Horse Week is "Unbridled Spirit". Take away the bridles and you would see the real spirit of these magnificent animals -- truly unbridled, that's what they were born to be.

-anonymous