T’bred with head wound dumped, dies at age 3
A 3-year-old Thoroughbred suffering from a gruesome head wound—slicing in an arc from the top of his head through his right eye— was dumped off this week at a Louisiana horse lot. The shockingly injured gelding was identified via a lip tattoo as Thoroughbred Say Dat Who, according to well-known race owner and Thoroughbred advocate Maggi Moss, who nearly singlehandedly ignited a firestorm of outrage this week when she published a photograph on Facebook of the mangled animal. Moss obtained the photograph from well-regarded horse shipper Angelo Trosclair, who had gone to the lot with his daughter to rescue another […]
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Photo of the Week: Little kids and horses, the joy
St. Augustine, a 2006 son of Point Given, tickles the fancy of a little visitor at the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department during a Mother’s Day event on the Plymouth farm last Saturday. The chestnut gelding, who finished 1st in his last race at Suffolk Downs in 2011, attracted children like a magnet to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) booth. And, when he wasn’t cuddling and accepting snacks from his adoring, pintsized onlookers, he was demonstrating his best moves with fellow OTTB retiree Sonny’s the One. The pair of Thoroughbreds romped around their paddock, which was situated alongside petting zoo friends, […]
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Fla. horses starve as owners ‘chase the dream’
Left once again to pick up the wreckage of another wannabe horse owner “chasing the dream” —his animals wasting away —Laurie Waggoner of the South Florida SPCA returned last month to the same scene where a year earlier, three Thoroughbreds had starved, nearly to death. Working in tandem with the Miami Gardens Police last month, Waggoner seized four horses, including a foal, and most notably, 5-year-old mare Enchanting Tide, who last raced at Gulfstream Park before falling into the wrong hands. They all showed the heartlessly familiar signs of neglect, she says. “You could look at the horses and know […]
