No longer valuable as a racehorse or a broodmare - she gave birth to nine foals-she fell down among the legs and hooves of the other slaughter-bound horses, and was pummeled as she struggled beneath them, writhing in the shavings and manure. Press Exclusive earned $400,000 on the track and foaled 9 babies before she was a “downer horse” on slaughter truckĪll that money, nearly a half million dollars worth of racetrack winnings, couldn’t help her as she thrashed in panic and fear.įlailing beneath the hooves of 30 other terrified horses, last December in a tractor-trailer heading for a Canadian slaughterhouse, once-winning race mare Press Exclusive had lost her balance on the truck, and her place in the world.
