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Originally Posted by KTrain
As for step 2 on the chucks: fewer horses being used for races should mean fewer are being born/raised to race. Slowly phase out the event.
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No that's really not the case.
There aren't horses being born and raised for chuckwagons. They are being bred for the racetrack. And most of them will end up being sent to the slaughterhouse when they are deemed unfit to race anymore (usually around six or earlier). 10,000 US thoroughbreds will be slaughtered this year.
The luckiest that aren't sent to the slaughterhouse end up in the chuckwagons where they can get an additional 15 years doing what they were born to do. It's not unusual that the very same auctions where slaughterhouses are purchasing their meat, chuckwagon racers are getting their team of horses.
Only the extreme select few will be sent to pasture to be studs, and even then the owners will send them out to be slaughtered once they stop producing foal.