BACKSTREET BULLY~ SLAUGHTERED IN KILL AUCTION! ~ SAY NO TO HORSE SLAUGHTER
PEOPLE TRIED HARD TO RESCUE THIS HORSE~SLAUGHTERED OUT OF SPITE!
HE WAS ANYTHING BUT UNWANTED ~THESE STABLES SAY THEY HAVE A RETIREMENT PROGRAM ~SAY NO TO HORSE SLAUGHTER!
As we are all well aware, the biggest reason for slaughter given by the PSA brain trust is that it is a way to deal with `unwanted horses?. According to them, slaughter keeps all these mystical beings from wandering the streets and becoming a menace to society and a drain on our tax dollars. Of course PSAs like Naughty Tobiano want us all to believe that kill buyers are just super nice
guys trying to earn a living. They would never send good horse that had a use to slaughter. Instead, they just hang out at sales and pick up all these unwanted horses and `recycle? them for a new purpose. Doesn?t that just make you all warm and tingly inside?
Do you see the horse above? He was slaughtered at Les Viandes de la Petite Nation January 8, 2013. He was anything but unwanted.
His name was Backstreet Bully and he was originally bred and owned by Adena Springs and raced under Stronach Stables. As many of you are aware, Adena Springs is owned by Frank Stronach and they have been leaders in the movement in finding new careers for retired racehorses. They have an entire division devoted to retired racehorses and have taken this commitment very seriously. Backstreet Bully wasn?t a great racehorse but he was graduate of their program. Here is the write up about him
from the Adena Springs Retirement Program prior to him being sold:
?Backstreet Bully is a kind 4 yr old, 16hh OTTB chestnut gelding.
He was retired from racing September 2008. He is a solid loving horse with tons
of puppy dog personality. He?s got a great sound mind, willing attitude and is
very well mannered; he just loves to be loved. He has been ridden both english
and western walk, trot, canter and hacks out quietly both alone and with
company. We have started basic Parelli training with him. Backstreet bully will
make an excellent pleasure horse. He has no vices or bad habits. He trailers,
cross ties, clips and is never a problem for the vet or
blacksmith.?
Somewhere along the line, something went badly wrong for Backstreet Bully and he ended up in a kill auction. Details about what happened are still coming out, but every effort was made by Transitions Thoroughbreds and Adena Springs to save this horse. This is a quote from Transitions on their Facebook page about
what happened at the sale:
?He was pointed out to me at the auction by an employee thereof
as she knew I was there to buy tbs ? I tried to buy him ? my bid was not taken,
perhaps not seen ? I tried to buy him after from the kill buyer and was told no
? he was meat only. He was not eligible for slaughter and it begs the question
of why the very person who does the paperwork on every horse running through
that auction would specifically point him out to me and describe him so that I
could bid on him at that sale to buy him would do that if he was meat only as
As we are all well aware, the biggest reason for slaughter given by the PSA brain trust is that it is a way to deal with `unwanted horses?. According to them, slaughter keeps all these mystical beings from wandering the streets and becoming a menace to society and a drain on our tax dollars. Of course PSAs like Naughty Tobiano want us all to believe that kill buyers are just super nice
guys trying to earn a living. They would never send good horse that had a use to slaughter. Instead, they just hang out at sales and pick up all these unwanted horses and `recycle? them for a new purpose. Doesn?t that just make you all warm and tingly inside?
Do you see the horse above? He was slaughtered at Les Viandes de la Petite Nation January 8, 2013. He was anything but unwanted.
His name was Backstreet Bully and he was originally bred and owned by Adena Springs and raced under Stronach Stables. As many of you are aware, Adena Springs is owned by Frank Stronach and they have been leaders in the movement in finding new careers for retired racehorses. They have an entire division devoted to retired racehorses and have taken this commitment very seriously. Backstreet Bully wasn?t a great racehorse but he was graduate of their program. Here is the write up about him
from the Adena Springs Retirement Program prior to him being sold:
?Backstreet Bully is a kind 4 yr old, 16hh OTTB chestnut gelding.
He was retired from racing September 2008. He is a solid loving horse with tons
of puppy dog personality. He?s got a great sound mind, willing attitude and is
very well mannered; he just loves to be loved. He has been ridden both english
and western walk, trot, canter and hacks out quietly both alone and with
company. We have started basic Parelli training with him. Backstreet bully will
make an excellent pleasure horse. He has no vices or bad habits. He trailers,
cross ties, clips and is never a problem for the vet or
blacksmith.?
Somewhere along the line, something went badly wrong for Backstreet Bully and he ended up in a kill auction. Details about what happened are still coming out, but every effort was made by Transitions Thoroughbreds and Adena Springs to save this horse. This is a quote from Transitions on their Facebook page about
what happened at the sale:
?He was pointed out to me at the auction by an employee thereof
as she knew I was there to buy tbs ? I tried to buy him ? my bid was not taken,
perhaps not seen ? I tried to buy him after from the kill buyer and was told no
? he was meat only. He was not eligible for slaughter and it begs the question
of why the very person who does the paperwork on every horse running through
that auction would specifically point him out to me and describe him so that I
could bid on him at that sale to buy him would do that if he was meat only as
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