Nearly 10 horses a week, on average, died at American racetracks in 2018, according to the Jockey Club’s Equine Injury Database. That’s a fatality rate that is anywhere from two and a half to five times greater than in the rest of the racing world.
NYT
Like many other victims in the sporting world today
thoroughbreds are suffering despite their bales of hay.
Horses at the racetrack are collapsing in a heap,
overworked and tortured and then medicated deep.
Winning is the only thing their owners care about;
they have the tender feelings of a brazen racetrack tout.
Beautiful and elegant, these animals should be
treated with respect and not debauched so brutally.
If there's a god of horses, as I think it only just,
he'll crush those callous trainers into little specks of dust.
Or else the wing-ed Pegasus, descending from the sky,
will free his brother horses when he teaches them to fly!
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