Sometimes it comes when accidents on the track hurt or even kill jockeys and horses. Cruel realities also arrive for horses that aren’t good enough for racing, or whose owners decide the animals are no longer worth the investment.
For 25 thoroughbreds recently sold to a facility in Texas for eventual slaughter, presumably in Mexico, it looked like the finish line. Then, on Tuesday, the farm that bred the horses announced it had bought the animals from the facility and would be sending them to a ranch near Duchesne.
How the horses arrived in Texas is unclear.