Belmont Stakes is this weekend. Think they’ll recognize these two 🐎during NBC’s coverage? Playthatfunnymusic (L), killed racing at Belmont 5-29. Singular Sensation (R), killed racing there today. TWO DEAD 🐎.THREE DAY span. ONE TRACK. Worth a mention? Don’t bet on it.
Myles. He’s got few remaining teeth. Scars, lots of them, cover his face, body and legs. He’s old and has endured much in his life. But he sure is loved.
#SlaughterBound
to
#ForeverSafe
❤️
@racingwrongs
@JohnOberg
Absolutely! Our critics often call us “keyboard warriors”, thinking they’re belittling us. The thing is, the term isn’t derogatory at all and I’m certain if the animals could speak, they’d thank all those “warriors” and beg for more.
THOUSANDS of discarded American racehorses are butchered every year in Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses. But it’s the HATS that media will cover on this KD day.
#KYDerby
#HorseracingKillsHorses
on the track & in slaughterhouses.
@racingwrongs
Little Christy was killed racing at Mountaineer tonight - raced for a lousy 4K tag, owned and trained by Burton Sipp. THIS is American horseracing.
@racingwrongs
@RebelsAnimal
Horseracing kills horses. Always has. Always will. For betting entertainment. It’s an antiquated & unnecessary industry that has no business in a civilized society. END IT.
@racingwrongs
#TheBigLie
from the racing industry & fans; a horse racing = a horse running in her own pastures. The Atras-trained mare Rough Tough Love, not yet 4 & after only 6 starts, has been reduced 2 a “companion” animal. She, like countless other crippled racehorses, is begging 4 a home.
Today at Belmont, Noble Thought (pictured here) went down training - “euthanized on track.” He was 9, made over 500K & his last race was a 10K claiming. Squeeze every last dime. New York has now admitted to 20 kills this year…
Horseracing is animal cruelty. It exploits. It cripples. It kills. Horseracing is an antiquated and unnecessary gambling industry that has no business existing in a civilized society. END IT.
@racingwrongs
Watch Baffert’s reaction 2 his 🐎, Havnameltdown, suffering a fatal injury - “Damn it” - isn’t that how you’d react if your child was trying 2 continue running on a dangling leg KNOWING he’d be dead because of it in the next 30 minutes? Racing’s
#BigLie
.
@racingwrongs
@stejim95
@TweeetsOfDogs
@lyleafoster
Thank you for the last act of kindness you blessed your precious fella with - oh if only ALL dogs experienced such compassion and commitment! (And he looks like he was the greatest dog ever…❤️)
Three CONFIRMED racehorse kills yesterday. Little Christy at Mountaineer. Racin’ Jacin at Thistledown. Platinum Ice at Parx. The “Sport of Kings” kills horses every day.
@racingwrongs
Merry Christmas to all! Myles’ Christmas wish is for the END of horseracing & forever homes for his racehorse brothers and sisters where they will finally be truly cherished family members! ❤️
Through a FOIA request to the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, HW has confirmed 35 kills at that state’s tracks in just the last 6 months. No fewer than 8 were “sudden deaths”, one being Beaver Creek pictured here.
Two more 🐎 killed at Turf Paradise - in the same race. These deaths come on the heels of a racing publication reporting vet checks R not always done pre-race at TP (then cancel the F-ING RACE if U don’t have the staff 2 do what you’re supposed to do!) & buzzers are being found.
At Horseracing Wrongs we firmly believe that every horse deserves a life free from exploitation & abuse. Our goal is to use facts & evidence to bring about a permanent end to horseracing. Join us in our fight to give horses the dignity and respect they deserve.
#LoveHorses
@JimmysBugsy
@3coltshandicap
@Deadspin
U forgot; isolate/confine them in a space the size of a closet: demand they participate in an activity that ⬆️ risk of injury/death & pocket the $’s of those labors: get them “off the books” when they can’t get a check: tell them they’ll be begging 4 a home when U’ve used them up
TWO 2-year-old racehorses suffer SUDDEN DEATH while training at DEL MAR 11 days apart; Night Girl on July 20 & Munny One, July 31. Over @ Los Al, TWO MORE 2-year-olds are dead - Rapacious (T) & Smokin Hot Fire (R). Killing horses comes damn easy to racing.
Gingrich (shown here racing at Keeneland) was KILLED racing yesterday at Churchill - home to the “first leg” of the TC races. No one in racing will acknowledge him today at the
#BelmontStakes
.
Super Quick is DEAD after breaking down @ Ellis yesterday. As this was a $125K stakes race & this 🐎 a star (Marylou Whitney Stables & Norm Casse), the racing press deemed her death, as opposed 2 the 350+ others
@racingwrongs
has documented so far this year, worthy of coverage.
Photo, Music Mandate. “Horse had difficulty entering starting gate. Crew [pushed] horse into the gate. [She] started kicking gate & sat down. Crew opened gate/determined horse was injured. Vet arrived/determined injury was an open cannon fracture/tendon destroyed. Euthanized.
Before Life is Good was made to race at Saratoga yesterday in extreme heat/humidity (take a close look at his face) & endure a post-race interview for the TV audience, TWO horses were killed during morning training there - Credit Event & Plurality.
Three racehorses killed at one track in one day. Per Eric Nelson, Wyoming Downs owner; “It’s just a dangerous sport.” DEAD horses, killed for some afternoon betting entertainment.
#HorseracingKillsHorses
@racingwrongs
URGENT: Boca Kitten was euthanized after this HORRIFIC collision at
#BelmontPark
this past Saturday.
Why are New Yorkers forced to pay subsidies to support the cruelty of the horse racing industry?
#WeAreHorseRacing
One of Colorado’s last remaining greyhound racing breeders admitted to state investigators that he used LIVE RABBITS to train his dogs. END the despicable practice of racing animals for “ENTERTAINMENT”!!
Friendly Fella, killed racing at CT last night. Seems acknowledgment of his life & death would come from the “sport” that claims 2 love their “athletes”. In what other sport R the athletes that die while participating NOT given that respect of recognition? Only in horseracing…
As part of the campaign to end horseracing subsidies in Pennsylvania,
@racingwrongs
has been asked to compile a list of industry victims over the past five years - following are the nearly 500 of them.
@racingwrongs
@GovKathyHochul
Having seen the cruelty 🐎’s endure on a DAILY basis, I cannot thank Patrick & HW enough for exposing this unnecessary gambling industry that CRIPPLES/KILLS 🐎’s every single day.
@GovKathyHochul
, please LEARN what enriches an equine’s life/do not set more 🐎’s up to be killed.
Horses are sentient beings. The relevant word, sentience – the ability to feel - the capacity for pleasure and, of course, its counterpart, pain. Horseracing cripples and kills these sentient beings for gambling entertainment. Enough. END IT.
(1) Insane Lifestyle (pictured here) died training at Hawthorne 11-1-21. From the Racing Board; “The horse has had a history of EIPH. Bled through lasix racing on 3-10-20; given time on vet’s list. Bled through lasix racing on 7-31-20; given six months on vet’s list.”……
@Asymetrical13
@RobRobbEdwards
EXACTLY. To the humans who just LOVE racing but use animals to do it? - lace up some running shoes and go for it…and leave the animals alone!
KD arrival via Brook Ledge? No, just Myles - a VERY aged gelding found in a kill buyer’s possession & headed to slaughter. He’s been with us for nearly 2 years now. Adored. Safe. For life. Every horse has
#ImmeasurableValue
.
#KeepYourHorses
@racingwrongs
Baffert; “We are so careful w/ all these 🐎” - so “careful” U neglect a most basic need? - monitoring & treating for worms? There must be a class on how to lie for these “horsemen” to get licensed.
Bob Baffert on Havnameltdown: “We never had an issue with him. We are so careful with all these horses, and it still happens. It is something that is disheartening. I feel so bad for the horse, and I just hope that Luis (Saez) is OK . . .
2 y/o Herecomesangelina "collapsed & died while galloping on [the] training track [Belmont].” No media coverage. No racing press coverage. And certainly no fans shedding copious tears as they did for Medina Spirit. She did not & does not matter to them.
“Begin w/ the horses. What kind of animal is a 🐴? A social animal, grazing animal, curious animal. What then needs 2 B in place 4 a 🐴 2 live a meaningful life? A bonded social group, the possibility 2 roam, graze, & explore together.” - Julie Taylor
Redneck Margarita was raced at NY’s Aqueduct in this condition & w/ EPM - he was rescued from a dealer a week later. Less that 1 month after that race, he required euthanasia d/t severe ataxia & inability to ambulate. Racing’s “aftercare”.
The “Radnor Hunt Races” were run in Malvern, PA, May 21 – which, as you’ll see, was a very hot day. Here are some notes from the stewards.
Race 1: 6-year-old Tom “collapsed on the course,” revived with “lots of water and ice.” More descriptions in link…
Photos, Music Mandate. “Horse had difficulty entering starting gate. Crew [pushed] horse into the gate. [She] started kicking gate & sat down. Crew opened gate/determined horse was injured. Vet arrived/determined injury was an open cannon fracture/tendon destroyed. Euthanized.”
In WHAT sport would the “game”continue, the announcer calling the “plays”, while an injured “athlete” struggles…unable to get to his feet? THIS is horseracing.
@ChurchillDowns
@hisa_us
@racingwrongs
Exclusive PETA video: Lost in Limbo was killed after suffering a fatal injury at
#ChurchillDowns
💔
He’s the 11th horse to die there within a month.
They tried to hide it behind a screen & by removing the video. But we were there.
THANK YOU to Melanie Sue Bowles, the founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, one of the nation's oldest and most successful privately-run organizations for horses, for her piece written for
@racingwrongs
!
Havnameltdown is dead. It’s not the track, not the trainer. It IS the brutal demands of RACING an animal with flight & herd instincts; the speed, the pounding, the close quarters, the being forced to continue w/ a tiring body. HORSERACING KILLS.
@baltimoresun
@racingwrongs
At Belmont today - 3 y/o Not So Grimm was “eased but GALLOPED through the wire with an UNCOMFORTABLE stride”. Jockey Luis Cardenas, how about you STOP, get off that baby horse and have the van come to him!
@racingwrongs
@RACEFund
@jockeyclub
@INThoroughbred
@hisa_us
Who’s responsible? Every individual who once called her their own; her breeder, every single racing owner/trainer in her 51 starts & every owner since her last racing owner/trainer got her off their books in 2014. That’s a lot of individuals who used her 2 line their own pockets.
This precious colt’s momma is dead because the mare’s owner wouldn’t stop breeding her even though (from the farm manager) “she had problems foaling before…I’m sure that put a lot of stress on her body”.
#HavredeGrace
💔
The racing industry demands horses (a grazing animal that craves routine and the safety & security of his own herd) participate in an activity that risks their limbs and lives, causing them pain and stress in doing so.
@Chrissy_Ottb
TY. We provide necropsy reports of racehorses in the states that are horrific - I mean HORRIFIC - yet I see the same people who claim sadness over the racehorses in PR NOT give mainland racehorses who’ve suffered the time of day.
This POS racing owner/trainer on wiretap; “U know how many f—— horses he (Navarro) f—— killed & broke down that I made disappear” - “U know how much trouble he could get in…if they found out …the 6 horses that we killed.” THIS is horseracing.
@racingwrongs
Who’s responsible? Every individual who once called her their own; her breeder, every single racing owner/trainer in her 51 starts & every owner since her last racing owner/trainer got her off their books in 2014. That’s a lot of individuals who used her 2 line their own pockets.
📢‼️👉Who is responsible for Tigress Seven? She's in kill pen in MI & sd to be in foal to Lukes Alley. We can't help her as hav sevral in QT. Who can help her? She nds funds, a safe place to hav her baby & someone who will do right by her.
@jockeyclub
,
@INThoroughbred
,
@hisa_us
Fiya, pictured here, was killed training at Saratoga this morning. FOUR horses have been killed racing or training at that ONE track in only 16 DAYS - that’s 1 dead racehorse every 4 days at the hallowed Saratoga.
THANK YOU to Patrick Battuello of
@racingwrongs
who first reported on Dale Hiteman abusing the 2 y/o filly Princess Laa months ago - his f/u w/ a FOIA request & subsequent reports were instrumental in this charge!
The Madison County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday night that horse trainer Dale Hiteman has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly striking a two-year-old horse inside a stall on June 1 at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing and Casino.
@racingwrongs
Noble Thought (pictured here) went down training - “euthanized on track.” He was 9, made over 500K & his last race was a 10K claiming. As stated in Patrick’s piece, racing tries to squeeze every dime from these magnificent animals.
#RacedToTheGrave
How in the HELL could having a family member killed (having their life risked for betting entertainment, no less) be in the same sentence as “so close to a perfect day”…I can’t even freaking imagine thinking such a thing much less saying it.
Circled, Admaa where she broke down yet her jockey rode her to the wire. Once again, racing provided the public with a lie, the chartwriter stating she “took a bad step after the wire”. She’s dead. Where is the reporting on THIS mare?
Green Light Go was killed – “unsalvageable injuries” is how the Daily Racing Form put it – training at Belmont this morning. He had just turned five and had been put to the whip 14 times. He is the 16th dead horse at Belmont this year, 23rd at all NYRA tracks.
@racingwrongs
Horseracing kills horses every damn day. A little over 2 months after this DRF report on a race, the 2nd AND 3rd place finishers are DEAD - both killed racing at Churchill.
@racingwrongs
A Kentucky federal district court held Steve Asmussen's stable liable for wage and hour law violations totaling more than $486,000 in actual and liquidated damages.
@DowneyProfile
Super Quick killed racing at Ellis yesterday. She is acknowledged by racing as she should be - the 350-plus others who’ve died to date this year, nothing.
@rfobar
@killhorseracing
Not ONE U.S. racehorse should face the unspeakable cruelty of the slaughter pipeline but the multi-billion $ racing industry that BRED them/USED them set their “beloved athletes” up 4 bad endings. Racing created them/used them; RACING needs to provide them w/ safe, forever homes.
@TVG
Havnameltdown is dead. It’s not the track, not the trainer. It IS the brutal demands of RACING an animal with flight & herd instincts; the speed, the pounding, the close quarters, the being forced to continue w/ a tiring body. HORSERACING KILLS.
@baltimoresun
@racingwrongs
@Chrissy_Ottb
“Sport”, Chrissy? What sport kills their athletes on their playing fields then glosses over those deaths/completely ignores them? Horseracing does. Look at Neolithic Nation’s PP’s. Read the final chart - no mention it was her dead body that was vanned off.
“Nothing is more exciting…” - well it’s all about how fun it is for the humans, isn’t it? A month his “win”, 3-year-old No Ice Cream dropped dead training at Santa Anita. What a “sport”.
2006 Kentucky Derby runner Private Vow. He was SLAUGHTERED on July 22, 2020. He was sold for stud duty to South Korea in 2014 after being used at Louisiana’s Red River Farm for 7 years.
@racingwrongs
#KYDerby
#HorseracingKillsHorses
on the track & in slaughterhouses. END IT.
At the Meadowlands Friday, Fox Valley Adele crumpled & died in the 6th race - she was just two.
At the end, the happy “winners” w/ their decidedly unhappy horse celebrated in the WC as the dead filly’s body was being hauled away.
Gingrich (shown here racing at Keeneland) was KILLED racing yesterday at Churchill - home to the “first leg” of the TC races. No one in racing will acknowledge him today at the
#BelmontStakes
.
My Greenwish. Rescued directly from the track where he was still being raced as a 10 y/o, he never completely recovered from the abuses he endured there. Another racing throwaway, he would have turned 33 on 4-24.
#KYDerby
#EndHorseracing
2 y/o filly. First race of her life. Imagine her fear & confusion. But hey, she crossed the wire w/ weight on her back so she’s a finisher and her people will get a check. THIS is horseracing.
@racingwrongs
SAME OLD FEARS fue confirmada en la 4ta posición de la primera carrera de hoy en Saratoga, ya que aún llevaba al jockey/peso encima al cruzar la meta, tal como se observa en el video.
Todo esto con todo y que rodase en ese proceso de llegada a la meta final.
HW has been filing annual “Killed” lists since 2014; we are the first to ever do this. Here are the eight-year (’14-’21) totals across the nation, and at some of our most conspicuous tracks.
@Deanoh999
@watch_welfare
@MartinPBSmith
Ah yes, you “found him a home”…so big of ya’ll - have someone else support him for the next 20-25 years. The good ole “royal treatment”, unload them when they can no longer bring a check.
@Chrissy_Ottb
@gogurlracing
@AreionTbreds
@RacingOhio
Want to keep UR horses safe? KEEP THEM. 4 LIFE. We know, of course, that racehorses R constantly thrown 2 the wolves we all know exist in racing when they’re offered up via private/public sales & in claiming races. Not one horse chose to be w/ a butcher - their owner allowed it.
The hardest adversity often leads to the greatest moments of your life. Keep fighting, keep going, never surrender, never give up, never stop, keep grinding. The toughest situations build the strongest people & horses in the end.
I’m so sorry Forte 😢💙🧡🙏🏽