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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Not to mention all the horse deaths resulting from sending them to slaughter. HOW MANY HORSE DEATHS per 1,000 STARTS COULD WE SAVE by preventing THAT?
How much does it cost to install a new racing surface? How many horses could be saved from slaughter with that money? Wonder how that number would compare with the theoretical number of horses that would be saved by the track surface (although a number of those "saved" might end up at the slaughterhouse anyway one day, so it's kind of a moot point).
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Most of the tracks we race at now take out $10-$25 from our purse monies for horse after care programs. I am sure there are many that will say not all that money goes to the betterment of retired race horses but I hope each and every track that takes this money out does indeed use it for that cause. From time to time I will get a call asking me for a few hundred dollars to save a horse from the kill pen, most of these calls are scams. I was able to locate one of our horses, Maddys Lion and paid $300 to have him sent to a farm in Pa. I haven't checked in on him for over 5 years but I hope he is still having a great after racing life on the farm.
