Save Racehorses in Japan - 競走馬を救え！プロジェクト

A promo video of a newly setup racehorse rescue project in Japan. Here we have 2 types of horse racing in Japan - one is the English type using Thoroughbreds and the other uses draft horses, making them race over obstacle hills pulling heavy sleighs. In Thoroughbred racing, average 8000 to 9000 foals are 'produced' every year and only 1 percent of them survive, the most of the rest end up in slaughter as horse meat. In draft horse racing, there are less than 1000 horses including breeding mares and their foals, but almost 100 percent of them end up in slaughter too. However, this dark side of the racing reality has been carefully hidden from public by the racing world and there still is a taboo in talking about saving horses after racing- I have met with hostilities and harassment both publicly and privately. Nonetheless, more and more people are becoming aware of what is really going on behind the closed door, and I hope I will be able to save more horses and find them new homes in the future. The draft horse filly that appears in this video is Anne, whose mother I have rescued from an ignorant breeder in 2009, and was born in May 2010. When she was in her mom's womb she had had the same fate with the rest of the race horses, but as she's found her home at my farm she's safe, actually she is most likely the first draft horse filly that was born without doom in my country. 2010年5月、北海道 ── ある小さな牧場で 「余生の心配のない、初めてのばん馬」が誕生しました 子馬の名前はアンヌ 彼女の兄弟姉妹はもちろん、他のほとんどすべての馬たちは 早くて生後半年、多くはわずか数年で命を絶たれる運命 あるものは初めから肉用として 他のものは競馬を引退して、あるいは病気や怪我で 「もう役目は終わった」からという理由で この残酷な【殺処分】は、サラブレッドもばん馬も同様に 「閉ざされた扉の向こう」で行われてきました 競走馬は引退すると、ほとんどが殺される この事実を知っている人が今 どれだけいるでしょう？ 知ってください 知らせてください 馬たちの悲惨な運命を そして できることからでいい どうかあなたの力を貸してください 競走馬を救え！プロジェクト http://project.saltvalleyfarm.com/ 発起人ブログ 『馬上の楽園』 http://paradisacheval.blog123.fc2.com/