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Every year, thousands of horses are bred for racing. Only 5-10% of them make it to the track, and the majority of the rest are sold for horse meat (yes, you read that right). The horses that do go on to have a racing career don’t have it much better, between injuries, failure, and drug addiction – all of which the general public has been aware of and virtually ignoring for years.
Why? Money, of course. Not only does horse racing bring in millions of dollars a year, but the people who own and train horses have deep pockets. The kind of deep that keeps people looking the other way.
But while NBCSports and ESPN were talking about what a “great race” was run at the Preakness today and others were touting the “record attendance,” two horses lost their lives (also, a jockey was injured on the track).
Do you think Twitter was going to let that slip past? Nope.