11 months ago
36
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two racehorses are dormant astatine the Big Fresno Fair, each dying wrong 3 days of each other.
Six-year-old Tulane Tryst died Friday of pneumonia and 5-year-old Cry Me a Runner died Sunday aft she was injured successful a race.
A video released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows the infinitesimal Cry Me a Runner stumbled connected the track, throwing her jockey and fracturing her leg.
The jockey was not injured.
“It's ever shocking and devastating to spot a equine dice connected a track, particularly erstwhile this is truly fundamentally an endeavor that's conscionable for quality entertainment,” PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said.
Cry Me a Runner’s injuries were severe, truthful veterinarians euthanized her.
“Is it a fluke? Unfortunately, it's not. You’re going to person a definite fatality complaint that occurs passim the racing industry. We decidedly don't privation any, but it does happen,” Big Fresno Fair Director of Racing Larry Swartzlander said.
Swartzlander says this is the archetypal injury-related racehorse decease the just has seen successful astir 4 years.
He claims they followed extended procedures Sunday to marque definite the way was harmless and each equine was steadfast earlier they were retired the gate.
When asked whether immoderate issues with the way oregon equine were discovered aft Cry Me a Runner’s death, Swartzlander rapidly said, “No, nothing. Absolutely nothing… The large consensus, the way is fine, we followed the procedures, and it's conscionable unfortunate.”
He says injuries are an unfortunate world of racing. Guillermo says that is wherefore the athletics should beryllium scrutinized.
“There's nary question that if idiosyncratic were moving a way and tract lawsuit and died connected the way for immoderate reason, everything would stop… Animals should not dice for a athletics immoderate much than a quality should,” Guillermo said.
The Big Fresno Fair doubled the magnitude of its racing play this year, but Swartzlander says that did not lend to either horse’s death, arsenic they had lone been racing for 1 week.
The just begins Wednesday, and the races volition continue.
