June 2, 2012, 10:08 am
By LIZ O’CONNELL
Camy
This is the face of horse slaughter. She’s a 4-year-old thoroughbred filly, a New York-bred. She was born on a beautiful farm in Westchester County. Her life on that farm would have been textbook perfect, it’s an outstanding facility, with a staff experienced in raising top-flight racehorses. Eventually, she was in training at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, N.Y., but she never made a start. At the end of last year’s race meet, her owner asked her trainer to find her a home.
The filly was advertised online on the site where Finger Lakes’ trainers list their horses. She was offered at $500. Her trainer is unclear about whether or not he gave the filly away, or if he sold her. He can’t remember. He does remember a chaps-wearing woman with a British accent hopping on the filly for a walk around the backstretch and liking her enough to take her home; but she didn’t want the filly’s registration papers.
On May 25, the 4-year-old gray filly was at the D.R. Chambers & Sons, Inc. Friday night horse auction in Unadilla, N.Y. Horses might be sold to private individuals at Unadilla, but there is a good chance they will be purchased by, or for, a kill buyer with a contract to deliver live horseflesh to slaughterhouses in Canada.
http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/a-4-year-old-filly-is-safe-and-sound/
A great story….that lets EVERYONE know just how easy ‘your’ horse can end up on ‘those trucks’, never mind the horrific experience of ‘an auction’. I can NOT imagine my horses at one…can not!
Thank God another TB saved from killer buyers! Thanks to all involved in her rescue.
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GREAT STORY;
I agree. We need more Happy endings like this.
Thank You Lord for miracles like this
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