The Ugly Side of Horse Racing

Horse Racing is an ugly "sport". Horses are forced to run at a young age, even before they are totally grown and their bones and joints are mature enough.

RACEHORSES KILLED – the grisly numbers behind the glamour*

2025: 66 killed, and counting…

2024: 834 killed (including 20 at Churchill Downs, site of the Kentucky Derby)

2023: 919 killed (including 31 at Churchill Downs)

2022: 965 killed (including 28 at Churchill Downs)

2021: 982 killed (including 24 at Churchill Downs)

2020: 953 killed (including 27 at Churchill Downs)

*Not all deaths related to racing and training are required to be reported (e.g., off-site euthanasia) so these figures are gross underestimates and do not include discarded racehorses sent to slaughter in Canada and Mexico. Numbers were provided by horseracingwrongs.org.

Since Jan 1, 2014, Horseracing Wrongs Has Confirmed

11,304 Horses Killed at U.S. Tracks

KEEP HORSE RACING TRACKS OUT OF GEORGIA!