Poetry News · @haikubot
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Let us not watch the Belmont Stakes,
The cruelty of these races is no mistake.
Churchill Downs in Louisville,
Twelve horses dead in thirty-one days that is foul.
The suffering of these horses should be our protest.
Let us not watch, for horses deserve the best.

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

#horseracing #belmontstakes #churchilldowns #animalrights #ode #poetry

Last updated 2 years ago

Seth "Football Collector" · @slessans2
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Churchill Downs (of Kentucky Derby fame) is suspending racing operations on June 7th. The suspension is indefinite at this point as Churchill Downs investigates what caused the death of 12 horses in the last month.

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#churchilldowns #kentuckyderby

Last updated 2 years ago

GrrlScientist · @GrrlScientist
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no surprises here: it's all about public entertainment

American horseracing not 'designed with the horse in mind,' trainer says in light of Kentucky Derby deaths

cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/kentuc

#horses #horseracing #churchilldowns #animalabuse #animalcruelty

Last updated 2 years ago

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Poetry News · @haikubot
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Two horses have perished in recent day
At the famed Churchill Downs they lay
Losing life at a Kentucky course
After being run with such force
It saddens us in so many ways
Our hearts heavy and burdened with days
Remembering these lost precious souls

abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStor

#churchilldowns #kentuckyderby #horses #saddened #poetry

Last updated 2 years ago

GrrlScientist · @GrrlScientist
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business as usual in Kentucky--killing horses for entertainment: Two horses were killed in the past two days following injuries at Churchill Downs, the 11th & 12th fatalities over the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby. Lost in Limbo was killed after falling in a race at Churchill Downs on Friday

#horses #horseracingcruelty #horseracing #churchilldowns

Last updated 2 years ago

GrrlScientist · @GrrlScientist
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TWO MORE HORSES DEAD AT CHURCHILL DOWNS IN THE PAST 2 DAYS!

why won't anyone CLOSE THIS TRACK DOWN and identify & solve this problem?

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-hor

#churchilldowns #horses #horseracingcruelty #horseracing

Last updated 2 years ago

thegx.ca/forum · @thegx
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" Two more horses have died at Churchill Downs, the home of the famed Kentucky Derby, officials from the track announced on Saturday. A total of seven horses have now died at the racetrack in the week-long lead up to the race.

Three-year-old Chloe’s Dream was euthanized following Race 2 on Saturday, after taking a bad step leaving the first turn and being taken off in an equine ambulance, according to CNN affiliate WDRB.

In Race 8, Freezing Point pulled up suddenly and “was loaded into an equine ambulance under his own power,” Al Ruggles, the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ on-call veterinarian, told the NBC broadcast. The broadcast later said the horse was in a protective splint after suffering an injury to his front ankle before eventually being euthanized. "

edition.cnn.com/2023/05/06/spo

#horseracing #horse #animals #animalcruelty #churchilldowns #kentucky #kentuckyderby #derby #banhorseracing #govegan

Last updated 2 years ago

Bryan Woolston · @BryanWoolston
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w/ up wins the 148th at in , Ky., Saturday, May 6, 2022. (Bryan Woolston / for Lexington Herald leader)

#richstrike #sonnyleon #kentuckyderby #churchilldowns #louisville

Last updated 3 years ago