The Tendon......

Recently I watched an episode of Dr. Pool. Featured on that episode was a young throughbred who when the supposed to be "trainers" were trying to break him for a mounted rider, the girl was very young, as well as they were trying to break him in an enclosed space with little or no room to run if spooked. They set up round pen gates in the middle of the barn that were rusted, he tried to jump the rusted metal round pen gates and got his leg hung up on the gate. They called the vet and had said that he may have sliced his tendon, and if that was the case and I quote "We are going to have to put him down if this is the case. His racing career is over and he can't run with a sliced tendon." See to me this really upset me because first of all, Ben sliced his tendon in the same exact spot as this horse. He lived and his able to carry on his life running freely in the fields. All it takes is some time and patience to get him recovered. This was the first day that we got him; what his leg looked like the first week.

This was his leg after we treated it a couple months after it happened....

This is the picture from one year later after it had all the way healed up....

See most of the people that are in the racing industry are in it for the money, and racing the horse until he can't run anymore and collapses due to the amount of stress that is placed on these horses. Keep in mind of the 10 total deaths this year in the racing industry, because of horses with broken legs that have had to be put down right there on the track. Half of the horses that loose get sent to slaughter or are starved to death. I'm sure that everybody who reads this has an opinion either way of what I am writing, but I have seen first hand how unwanted race horses end up. Green Road Dancer was breed of very good blood lines as was the horse that was featured on the episode with the sliced tendon. She raced a total of 27 races in her life starting at the age of 3 and 1/2. (Fingerlakes, New York, New York is where she raced her entire racing career) Out of the 27 races she only placed first in two of them and last in the all of the rest. She did not win a decent amount of money, and because of her not bringing in the dough her and two other companions who were also failures on the track were also sent to an auction where they most likely end up in slaughter. Purchased from the meat man as a kill horse along with her companions. Only minutes from getting loaded onto the meat truck, Joe Diebel from Angel Acres Horse Rescue came and rescued her and her other companions from this terrible fate.

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