Are racehorses being bred to destruction?
Post categories: Mammals
|15:05 UK time, Friday, 18 November 2011
Bred to race or be sold? (copyright: Slooby)
“Just hours before the Kentucky Derby, trainer Larry Jones got up early with his filly Eight Belles and took her to the track for a ride before the big race.
This was supposed to be a day of tempting history for Jones and Eight Belles.
They were taking on 19 colts and trying to make Eight Belles the fourth filly, and the first since Winning Colors in 1988, to win the "Run for the Roses."
This was to be a day of celebration for owner Rick Porter and his entourage no matter where she finished. She was the first filly to enter the Derby since 1999.
Now there will be a necropsy and then cremation.”
I’m Matt Walker, editor of BBC Nature online. This blog is my take on the natural world, and how there’s more to Life than you may think. 
