Lights On Broadway Prepares to Leave the Track for Greener Pastures

re: Lights On Broadway Prepares to Leave the Track for Greener Pastures

Karen in Texas — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:30 GMT

I was stunned to read this about Lights on Broadway, having seen him run at Lone Star Park several times. This is a sad commentary on the hidden side of the racing industry. I, too, continue to write to Cornyn, Hutchison, and Dr. Michael Burgess (my U.S. Rep.) about the need to end both slaughter and the transport to slaughter here in the U.S. Thank God for the Keens and for the transport driver who cared.

re: Lights On Broadway Prepares to Leave the Track for Greener Pastures

joe — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:19:38 GMT

Greed in all aspects of life shouldn't surprise me. But when racing became less about "sport" and more about "industry," did decency, gratitude and obligation go out of the window? How does a state horse of the year end up for slaughter? When we see how the Wall Street mentality has played out, it's no surprise it reaches out to and strangles the legacy of racing.

re: Lights On Broadway Prepares to Leave the Track for Greener Pastures

Linda — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:45:15 GMT

Thanks to the rescue of this horse. This is why i continue to beg, write and beg some more my U.S. Representative Conaway (Texas) and Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn,Senators (Texas) to vote against anything having to do with any horse that aids their slaughter in any way much less one that was a Texas Horse of The Year in 2001. That's not gratitude folks. And work still is ongoing to stop Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption or to even be driven over Tax Supported Highways to get to Mexico and Canada if slaughter is the ultimate fate. How horrible that whomever's care he was in was so heartless to send this fella to his almost butchering. Had he made it the heart might ought to have gone to those who sent him. Good for the Keens, from TEXAS i might add.