Zealous Blonde slips slaughter pipeline, safe
It was a weird gut instinct that sent a tickle up Lauren Wink’s spine one night and made her start wondering about the whereabouts of a mare she took care of as a yearling, broke as a baby, and even named before sending her off to the races. Though she’d thought of the flashy chestnut Zealous Blonde many times over the years, even after Wink got out of the horses and became an anesthesiologist assistant, she wondered what happened to the little upstart blonde who reminded her so much of herself. “I had followed her race record for a while […]
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Locked in, TBs couldn’t lift heads in stalls
Three Florida Thoroughbreds, locked away for months in shanty stalls so confining they couldn’t lift their heads, were seized Sunday by Miami-Dade law enforcement. Removed from patched-together stalls where thick, putrid excrement covered the stall floors, were tattooed 4-year-old filly Silver and Smoke and tattooed 5-year-old chestnut gelding Bringcheckcharlie. A third, un-tattooed Thoroughbred was also seized from a boarding facility in an industrial section of NW Miami-Dade known as Miami Gardens, according to Laurie Waggoner, director of operations, South Florida SPCA. An active police investigation is ongoing, she adds. Police will locate the owner(s) of the animals to press charges […]
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Cards were stacked against them, rough start
Krystyn Markovic and Milo couldn’t have had a worse start. The pair met on a sad day, shortly after the young equestrian and University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee student had lost her beloved first horse to sepsis, and her parents, who had subsidized that pony, were warning against buying another. She was not exactly financially solvent when she met the un-raced Thoroughbred War Emperor, and certainly didn’t possess “horse money.” And he was a T-bred so high maintenance as to be the only one in his free-range herd who needed to live in a barn, thickly blanketed. Yet, against all logic, Markovic took […]
