140th Running of the Preakness Stakes Today: Is Horse Racing Animal Cruelty? [VIDEO]

The Preakness Stakes, a race that sometimes claims the lives of the animals who compete in it, will bring eight horses to Pimlico Race Course today. Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby but shattered his leg two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes which ended his racing career and eventually lead to his death. Eight Belles finished second in the 2008 Kentucky Derby but collapsed immediately after crossing the wire suffering a compound fracture of both front ankles and was immediately euthanized the trauma too severe to even attempt to move her off the track. "She ran with the heart of a locomotive on champagne-glass ankles" said a sportswriter who blamed breeders and investors and claimed "thoroughbred racing is in a moral crisis and everyone now knows it.” According to horseracingwrongs.com1,300 racehorses died racing or in training on American tracks in 2014.

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