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05-07-2008, 04:35 AM
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Squires strong NYT sports blog piece
Jim Squires, (Monarchos breeder; author of A Horse of a Different Color), with a very strong piece in the NY Times Sunday that I missed until this morning...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/sp...ss&oref=slogin Horses break their legs running across pastures with no one on their backs. Whether wild or domesticated, they race with one another and often try so hard they hurt themselves. They run through fences. They kick each other regularly, often breaking their own legs and those of others. They, too, have to be euthanized. Horses who never saw a racetrack in their lives founder regularly from mysterious causes and end up like Barbaro. They develop colic and die regularly in our barns, in our trailers on the way to clinics, on operating tables after they get there, and sometimes even after they return home with $30,000 medical bills. Foals are frequently born dead. Mares often die trying to give birth. In short, losing animals is an integral part of raising them. Breeders, owners and trainers spend a great deal of time in emergency rooms and disposing of carcasses. People just don’t see it on television.
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