Drilling for Oil

[my miss storm cat]

I posted this on whatever happened to but this deserves a thead of its own.

Can't even post what I hope happens to these bastards.

I was a fan of his... I'm sure there are others here.

Sad, sad, sad.


http://livenews.com.au/news/thieves-...009/8/7/215361

.Friday, 7 August 2009 1:42 PM
Thieves steal, butcher star racehorse Drilling for Oil

Australian Associated Press | AFP
(no author listed)

It wasn't a glue factory, but it was an untimely end for a star racehorse worth $US270,000 ($A321,390) after thieves butchered him for the meat.

Six-year-old thoroughbred "Drilling for oil" had won races in the United States and was headed for an easy life, out to stud in Peru.

That was before rustlers snagged and killed him, plucking him out of the pasture where he was grazing.

The horse's remains -- really just the head, feet, tail and bones -- were found in Canete, 140km south of Lima, police said on Thursday.

The fillets of horse were sold as beef, authorities said.

Thieves who stole the horse from Israeli owner Hiad Hamide on Tuesday were still running from the law, police said.