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Last week, nine racehorses shipped straight to kill were rescued in a covert action. Seven are Thoroughbreds, two are Quarter Horses. Kill buyers refused to allow the release of the horse's names.

These racehorses were ‘meant to disappear’

Nine young racehorses who were reportedly “meant to disappear” in an anonymous haul of discarded Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses were saved from death in a Mexican slaughterhouse last week by a covert rescue effort that crisscrossed the U.S. and Canada. Racing against the clock while handling delicate negotiations with kill-buyers who insisted there would be no deal if horse Jockey Club names were released to the public, rescuers managed to quietly raise $10,000 in two days to save seven young Thoroughbreds and two Quarter Horses whose identities may never be made public. According to Mindy Lovell of Transitions Thoroughbreds in […]