Culpability when racehorses end up being rescued from slaughter

The New York Racing Association enacted an anti-slaughter policy in December 2009 stating that any owner or trainer stabled at one of its three tracks found to have directly or indirectly sold a horse for slaughter would have his or her stalls permanently revoked from all NYRA tracks.

Last summer, following an investigation into a horse trained by John Campo that had been discovered at the Camelot horse auction in Cranbury, New Jersey, and that was nearly shipped to a slaughterhouse, NYRA changed the wording of its policy from “directly or indirectly” to “knowingly” selling a horse for slaughter. Campo’s brother is NYRA Racing Secretary P. J. Campo.

That policy was recently put to the test when two horses last trained by Neal Terracciano and owned by Edkat Stables—Morine’s Victory and B B Frank—were rescued from the Camelot auction.

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