Animal Abuse-So I could win a bet!

GRAND NATIONAL HORSE RACE & HORSE ABUSE

 

Facts about the world of horse racing:

1. Since 13th March 2007 there have been 816 on-course thoroughbred horse fatalities in Britain alone.
2. Around 420 horses are raced to death every year (including non-thoroughbred horses and of-course deaths caused by racing).
3. About 38% die on racecourses.
4. Others are destroyed as a result of training injuries. These injuries could be treated, but because the horse will no longer be able to make money by racing, money is not "wasted" on treating them.

Below: Neglected and starving ex-race horse rescued by Florida T.R.A.C. Pictured with member Natalie Fawkes.

Below: Ex-race horse Traveller was sold for £20,000 just three years before he was rescued by LEARN rescue in a starving and neglected state along with three other horses starved and neglected by Dwight McCloud at a farm in Somerville. Whisper with the huge back burn caused by Kerosene was one of them. The chemical had burned through the skin and some muscle, and maggots were also eating the tissue. The pain will have been unbearable. The horses were so hungry, they were trying to eat wood shavings in the stall, among other inedible materials. (Credit: Howland Mansfield)

 

Below: Every year, around 300 racehorses die on British race tracks. In addition to the hundreds raced to death, thousands more are killed, or abandoned to neglectful or abusive situations, every year because they can no longer run fast enough to be profitable. (Credit: Animal Aid)

 

The owner of According To Pete expressed his grief about his horse being put to death after falling and suffering a fractured leg. He said he would never again consider entering another animal in the Grand National horse race and added "You always think it's going to be someone else's horse".

British comedian, Ricky Gervais, writer of hit comedy 'The Office' said he would not watch the Grand National in protest of the cruelty. He added :

 

"I don't think people should make horses jump over things being whipped and when they injure themselves they are put down because they are not worth having around because of economic reasons."