I need Horse Racing info?

Question

Where can i find out about horses that have died from horse racing? Or have been seriously injured and was euthanized and find pictures of the horses or videos when it happened? And this is not about Barbaro totally different Its a project

Answer 1

Try:
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/horse/ALL/611/
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/evj/evj/2001/00000033/00000005/art00010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4819716.stm
http://www.equinecentre.unimelb.edu.au/research_current_racetrack.shtml

Answer 2

Good luck with this and if you discover anything further, please email me. Here goes all I know.

First off, the industry is very "vague" about such statistics. You will find various numbers but the best I have been able to come up with is that approximately 700 horses per year (United States alone) die in catastrophic accidents on racetracks during actual races. These are the horses that we KNOW are immediately put down on the track due to their injuries suffered during the actual race. The numbers that are destroyed in training accidents or later back at the barns because they did not heal from their injuries are probably much higher, nobody really keeps tabs on it for various reasons ranging from: the industry not wanting these figures known to no one really has time to assimilate all the data.

For actual footages/pics, etc. just go out to Google or about any search engine and type in some various well known horses such as Ruffian, Pine Island, Go For Wand, Prarie Bayou. Please be aware that some of these pictures are VERY GRAPHIC.

Also what you might want to consider in your research is the numbers of horses slaughtered every year in the United States (55,000 as of last year). Of those numbers a significant percentage of them (20-26% depending on whose numbers you believe) are thoroughbreds and are "throw-aways" from the racetracks (have lip tattoos tying them back to the racetrack) --- i.e., horses that can't make anyone anymore money and have never been trained properly for another discipline. I don't know if you consider that a direct result of "dying from racing" but I do. If these animals were not overbred in the first place, that situation (horse slaughter) would be considerably diminished. Be very careful if you research this out on the internet -- there are some VERY GRAPHIC images and you probably don't need to look at them, just get your numbers.

Answer 3

I am bringing one up from Southern California one ex racehorse that had been abandoned named Integrated Disc. This horse is 12 y/o and during his short life, he has had a rough one. tbfriends.com gets about 200 ex-racehorses that he adopts out every year. Recently, there was a movie made about a horse (I can't remember the name of the movie) that everyone felt was too small to win races and it proved everyone wrong. It ran race after race. The ex racehorse Fernando/Ferdinano was taken to auction and a killer buyer bought him and he was killed in the slaughterhouses. In fact some ex-racehorses that were relatively unknown ended up killed in the slaughterhouses. Which of these, no one will ever know. Once they end up in the slaughterhouses, they are essentially erased from existence. There is no way to track them down. An excellent source though would be tbfriends,com since they are frequently dealing with ex-racehorses.

Answer 4

GET ON THE NET AN LOOK FOR ASSOCIATION TO DO WITH ANIMAL WELFARE--THEY WILL HAVE ALOT OF PICS AND STORIES THAT ARE SICKENING!! THE JOCKEY CLUB OR RACE HORSE OWNERS WILL NOT HELP YOU--IT'S A BIG KEPT SECRET ABOUT THE ABUSE--I USE TO TRAIN RUNNING QUARTER HORSES!

Answer 5

Ruffian the horse

Ruffian (April 17, 1972 - July 7, 1975) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse, considered by many horseracing enthusiasts to be the greatest female racehorse of all time.

A dark bay or brown filly, Ruffian was foaled at Claiborne Farm, near Paris, Kentucky. She was bred by Stuart Janney Jr. and Barbara Phipps Janney. Ruffian was sired by the Phipps family's Bold Ruler stallion Reviewer and out of the Native Dancer mare Shenanigans. She was trained by Frank Whitely, Jr..

She earned the nickname "Queen of the Fillies" after being voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Filly in 1974 and winning the Filly Triple Crown in 1975. She was undefeated in her first ten races, covering distances from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/2 miles (1106 to 2414 m) with an average winning margin of 8 1/3 lengths. Her eleventh and final race, run at Belmont Park on July 6, 1975, was a match race between Ruffian and that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. The "equine battle of the sexes" was heavily anticipated and attended by more than 50,000 spectators, with an estimated 18 million watching on television.

The first quarter-mile (402 m) was run in a blazingly fast 22 1/5 seconds, Ruffian ahead by a nose. Little more than a furlong (201 m) later, Ruffian was in front by half a length when both sesamoid bones in her right foreleg snapped. Her jockey, Jacinto Vasquez, tried to pull her up, but she ran on for another 50 yards (46 m), apparently unwilling to give up the race.

She was immediately attended to by a team of four veterinarians and an orthopedic surgeon, and underwent an emergency operation lasting 12 hours. Tragically, when the anesthesia wore off after the surgery, she thrashed about wildly on the floor of a padded recovery stall despite the efforts of numerous attendants, breaking the cast and causing even more catastrophic damage to her injured leg. The medical team, realizing that further surgery was useless, euthanized her shortly afterwards. Her performance in the 1975 season earned her the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Filly. In 1976, she was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Her breakdown and tragic death led to a public outcry for more humane treatment of racehorses. One result was that medications, such as Lasix for bleeding and corticosteroids for inflammation and pain management, came into common use in racehorses. While helping the horses in the short term, the increased use of medications at the track had a downside, as many horses were raced while injured. It can be argued that thoroughbreds are becoming more delicate as a result; racehorses today run only half as many starts before retirement as did their counterparts 50 years ago. Some of this effect is likely also due to breeding practices that select for horses likely to have short, brilliant careers—like Ruffian's—instead of the traditional racing career which might have lasted several years. Indeed, Ruffian's bloodline may be considered at least partly to blame for her broken leg; her sire, Reviewer, suffered three breakdowns.

Regardless, Ruffian herself may be regarded as one of racing's best and brightest. The Blood-Horse ranked Ruffian 35th in its list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century. Sports Illustrated included her as the only non-human on their list of the top 100 female athletes of the century, ranking her 53rd.

Fifteen years later, a filly named Go for Wand, among the best female racehorses since Ruffian's demise, also suffered a fatal breakdown at Belmont Park. It happened on Breeders' Cup Day as Go for Wand battled the older champion Bayakoa through the stretch in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. The two tragic events are often discussed together.

Ruffian is buried near the finish line in the infield at Belmont Park, her nose pointed towards the finish pole. It is often said, "she died on the lead."

(Buried nearby is another horse who died on this track in 1982, Timely Writer, running in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.)


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Answer 6

Maybe try and ring a jockey club, I'm sure that they can point you in the right direction

Answer 7

Try the internet.

Answer 8

Try the internet.