Responsibility for ex-racehorses

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Scav

Pretty hilarious that this horse is directly assigned to Secretariat (4th gen), any horse that has Storm Cat in its pedigree is gonna have Secretariat also.

If all states took the responsibility that Pennslyvania does, where funds are collected from each starter and the owner has NO CHOICE but to pay it, it would be a good start.

For example, Philly Park collects on average $750 per racing day ($10 times 75 starters). In October, they will recieve $13,500 in fees towards the retirement program.

You have to wonder if there would have been so much news about the horse if the movie hadn't come out though. It seems that retired racehorses make much more news when victims of abuse, mainly because I think people can say this horse made x amount of $ on the track and no one took care of it afterwards, also you can use names like Secretariat and Kentucky Derby winner relative etc.. I heard somewhere that less exracehorses end up in slaughter pens than other horse, but I think most people would suspect otherwise because of the image of racing.