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Title: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Calhoun on January 27, 2026, 08:57:52 PM: We see it dragged into the trailer and vanned off. Then what?

Is there always a necropsy?

Disposal... what percentage are:

- Sent to Canada or Mexico?
- Rendered at a regulated facility?
- Cremated?
- Buried?
- Landfill?

What happens where you race?
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: firhill on January 27, 2026, 09:14:41 PM: In Ontario they have to be taken to Guelph University for necropsy, at the owner's expense.
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Ignorance Is Bliss on January 27, 2026, 09:21:37 PM: This idiot doesn't know first a necropsy mandated? Then proper processing. Maybe he only knows 1/4200th of the rules. ngc3
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Pacer 2 on January 27, 2026, 09:42:41 PM: They end up at McDonalds.
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Trigger on January 27, 2026, 09:43:03 PM: Quote from: Calhoun on January 27, 2026, 08:57:52 PM
We see it dragged into the trailer and vanned off. Then what?

Is there always a necropsy?

Disposal... what percentage are:

- Sent to Canada or Mexico?
- Rendered at a regulated facility?
- Cremated?
- Buried?
- Landfill?

What happens where you race?

Probably every way you said, but predominantly if government / university will hall away and perform the necropsy, for free and you might find out why they died.

Cremation could cost about $2k.

I asked the Sopranos about body disposal...

Tony - "We buried him. On a hill. Overlooking a little river. With pinecones all around" ngc3

Christopher - "It's going to be a while before I eat anything from Satriale's" ngc3

Uncle Junior - "Crying over a chunk of Marble?" ngc3

Joey Peeps getting his brains blown out - "Couldn't have been much to clean up." ngc3

Joey Peeps on the headstone - " It's a fucking nickname, his family name is Peparelli." ngc3
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Calhoun on January 28, 2026, 09:52:21 PM: Quote from: firhill on January 27, 2026, 09:14:41 PM
In Ontario they have to be taken to Guelph University for necropsy, at the owner's expense.
ok, thx.

But, where do the end up?
Furnace, landfill, buried, rendered, etc...?
That's what I'm asking.

Thanks again.
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: SIX SHOOTER on January 29, 2026, 09:04:47 AM: THE TRACK KITCHEN tmbz1
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: firhill on January 29, 2026, 09:15:04 AM: Quote from: Calhoun on January 28, 2026, 09:52:21 PM
ok, thx.

But, where do the end up?
Furnace, landfill, buried, rendered, etc...?
That's what I'm asking.

Thanks again.

No idea.

Maybe the same place that peoples leftover skin, organs and blood go to after surgeries?
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: Stan durbread on January 29, 2026, 08:16:34 PM: In most jurisdictions. First thing that happens is vet draws 6 vials of blood that get sent for testing. Then the horse is loaded into the ambulance and hauled off the track. Then it is sent to the university contracted to due the necropsy. After that it is picked up by a rendering agency just like any other large animal that passes away at a large animal clinic.
Title: Re: A horse dies on the track where you race... Where does it end up?
Post by: NOTHING BUT TRUTHS on January 29, 2026, 08:46:33 PM: Ends up in the shit pile and some guy picks them up. No tests are done.