Kentucky Derby????

I really don't see what the big deal is. They used to put down horses for having just one broken ankle or a broken hoof. If both of a horse's front ankles are broken, there is no way to get the horse to walk out of there. How would the horse survive long enough for the ankles to heal? People want to say that it's cruelty to animals, but sometimes it is cruel to make animals live with terrible injuries like these.

I don't think there was any way they could have saved 8 Belles with two broken ankles. She couldn't have stood up at all and so would have had all kinds of other problems down the road if they had tried to save her. And besides, look at the pain that she was in, they did the right thing. At least in my opinion they did the correct thing.

If there was any possible and humane way to save this horse it would have been done. When you find a wild horse stressed and being eaten alive by birds because it has fallen and broken a leg you will realise that actually racehorses are looked after well in comparison to the lot of a wild horse. Sadly horses cannot often survive a broken leg . It is't racing that does that it can happen to horses any time. Thanks to racing horses have a great life and are a lot less likely to break legs than they are in the wild or even as a pet in a field. Having said that the practice in the US of running horses on painkillers like bute may cover problems . In Europe it isn't allowed.