Jail sentence expected to buoy slaughter fight
An animal rights group seeking to shut down illegal horse slaughterhouses and other illegal butcheries received a shot in the arm this week when a Florida rancher, targeted in an undercover sting, was sentenced to a year in jail. Following the sentencing of Jorge Luis Garcia, 48, of Ranchos Garcia Farm to a year behind bars without possibility of probation, animal-rights activist Richard “Kudo” Couto declared the sentence a “groundbreaking” decision, one that should help other prosecution efforts of illegal slaughterhouses. “We’ve investigated 137 cases, but this is the first one involving the treatment of farm animals that has gone to trial,” […]
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Q&A: She helps keep 900 TRF horses happy
A herd of 156 Thoroughbreds spots Sara Davenport as she pulls up to the Oklahoma land where they roam across sprawling fields. On this particular day, the Rye grass is growing thick, and the watering ponds are nearly spilling over. And as the herd manager for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation approaches, they gather and turn like a flock of birds, sensing no need for her assistance on this day. “These horses are so funny,” says Davenport. “If the grass had been getting a little thin, they’d see our trailers and coming running toward us because they know we’d be moving them […]
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Race trainers team up to help a Scat Daddy son
A four-year-old son of Scat Daddy, injured in a race last September, has found a path through troubled times with the help of his race trainer and former assistant race trainer. In the weird way that bad fortune can turn to good, Mr. Discreet blew a tendon at Parx Racing last September as the entire track was placed under quarantine for an outbreak of the equineherpes virus. Returned to his shedrow stall to wait out the quarantine, which prevented horses from entering or exiting the track, the flashy chestnut was carefully rehabbed by trainer Robert Reid, while the handsome horse’s […]
