Current Events > Two horses die following 'catastrophic injuries' after Belmont Stakes

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https://nypost.com/2023/06/11/horse-dies-due-to-injury-in-final-race-after-belmont-stakes/

Yet another two horses have died after a race at a Triple Crown track. Excursionniste was injured and euthanized during the 13th and final race at Belmont Park on Saturday, which was the one that immediately followed the Belmont Stakes main event. Mashnee Girl was then euthanized on Sunday following a race at Belmont in which she suffered a catastrophic injury her left front leg, according to NYRA. According to USA Today, which cited the Equibase race chart, Excursionniste led at the quarter-mile mark and was in second place when the turf race reached a half mile, and New York Racing Association spokesman Pat McKenna said in a statement to the Associated Press that the horse sustained a catastrophic injury to its left front leg. Despite the immediate response and best efforts of on-site attending veterinarians, McKenna said in the statement to the AP, the horse was humanely euthanized due to the severity of the injury.

PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo said in a statement that racing couldnt manage to keep all horses alive for even one Triple Crown day this year, adding that it had encouraged the NYRA and New York State Gaming Commission to require CT scans for all horses racing today in order to screen for preexisting injuries. The organization had also called for the Belmont Stakes to be postponed earlier in the week due to the low air quality stemming from the Canadian wildfires, though those levels improved leading up to Saturday. But PETA still criticized the hosts of the Triple Crowns final stage following the latest horse death amid a concerning stretch in the sport. The racing industry is digging its own grave as well as this horses, Guillermo wrote in the PETA statement Saturday night. Guillermo issued another statement on Sunday after Mashnee Girls death. Two dead Thoroughbreds in two days with the same trainer on the same track means one thing: Belmont Park is failing to protect horses, she said. Like Churchill Downs, Belmont must suspend racing immediately to avoid the same bloodbath. Anything less makes Belmont complicit in the fatalities. Excursionnistes death continues a disturbing trend in horse racing. Churchill Downs suspended operations through the end of the Spring Meet schedule following a stretch leading up to and during the Kentucky Derby where 12 horses died at the racetrack, another horse died the morning of the Preakness Stakes and, according to the AP, Excursionniste became the third horse to die at Belmont Park this year.

It's time to ban horse racing

Zikten posted...

It's time to ban horse racing

I'm scared that if we get rid of these billionaires hobby of horse eugenics they'll just move on to us.

But you aren't wrong at this point.

Horse racing should have been banned years ago. Decades, even.