Lady Freethinker (LFT), in collaboration with Horseracing Wrongs, is spreading awareness about the cruelty and senseless deaths involved in the profit-driven racing industry through a new billboard in the heart of Los Angeles.
The billboard, made possible by the generous support of Mark Matyazic, is sending a clear message to thousands of people each day:Â horseracing kills.
The billboard sheds light on the egregious cruelty happening at nearby Santa Anita Park and other racetracks throughout the country, where horses are dying at an alarming rate. From December 2018 to late January 2020, 49 horses have died at Santa Anita, the latest three dying in a short three-day span.
These poor horses are worked to death, and often forced to race with limb injuries. When the horse inevitably breaks his or her leg, the racetracks put them down. In warm-weather states like California, trainers and jockeys push horses to race year-round, injecting them with medication pre-race to deal with wounds and contusions. Yearlings are pushed to sprint in extremely hot temperatures, resulting in respiratory problems and heart attacks.
Making horses sacrifice their lives for “sport” is barbaric and inhumane. The horseracing industry needs to be shut down for good.
Please, help urge California Governor Gavin Newsom to shut down Santa Anita and work to end all horseracing in the state by signing Lady Freethinker’s petition.
Stop this horrible cruelty now!
Greed & cruelty go hand-in-hand… prevails from the top!
These ongoing atrocities are unacceptable! The losers are always the VOICELESS ANIMALS.
They have no say! Up to us to continue to be their VOICE!
These “spectator sports” must be stopped!
These are not human behaviors
Hi, from England. I am a great fan of National Hunt racing and would abhor practices of running horses who are not well and with injuries. In Hunt racing I am satisfied that trainers do not run their horses when they are injured or unwell.The horse is a loved animal cared for passionately by stable staff,and only race when ready to do so. The horses running on the flat get the same love and affection. Bloodstock costs so much anyway. Horses are not expendable,and are loved animals.
The “sport of kings” needs to be abolished.
Stop it! Close it down!
I am so fed up with the abuse that all animals suffer at human hands .God will revenge you in the end ..looking forward to your time of suffering it’s coming you will definitely pay..animals are such beautiful souls ..what is wrong with all these evil doers. God bless your time is at hand.
Please close this down now!!!!!!!
Hi, from England. I am a great fan of National Hunt racing and would abhor practices of running horses who are not well and with injuries. In Hunt racing I am satisfied that trainers do not run their horses when they are injured or unwell.The horse is a loved animal cared for passionately by stable staff,and only race when ready to do so. The horses running on the flat get the same love and affection. Bloodstock costs so much anyway. Horses are not expendable,and are loved animals.0
Dear Governor Newsom please see to it that the San Anita horse racing track is closed down to refuse to do this will be Criminal on your part.
Animals are olso Gods creatures. Respekt and love them, they are not a thing, they are someone with feelings.
Absolutely appalling that the authorities allow this to happen and do nothing. All about money with no thought for animal welfare. Shame on you America!
Right Anisa shame on you America
Stop horrors
The barbaric treatment of animals by humans is climbing yet nothing seems to change why do we feel the need to torture animals to the point of murdering them bring in tougher laws and longer prison sentences.