this is tragic

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Legendary horses latest victim of Spain's bust

By ALAN CLENDENNING | Associated Press – 8 hrs ago

• Associated Press/Laura Leon - In this photo taken on Monday, April. 8, 2013, a ''Pura Raza Espanola'' or Pure Spanish Breed horse belonging to breeder Francisco Mesa is seen inside a stable at La Yeguada de …more 

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ALMONTE, Spain (AP) — The southern Spanish region of Andalusia, famed for flamenco and Moorish castles, is also home to a legendary breed of horses that carried conquistadors into battle in the Americas, featured in Hollywood epics and more recently became trophy acquisitions for Spaniards during a giddy economic boom.

On his grassy ranch in the territory's heartland, 73-year-old Francisco Mesa breeds these "Pura Raza Espanola" — Pure Spanish Breed — horses with a passion that comes from years of pampering the elegant beasts known for their intelligence and affection for humans. He enters a muddy pen and is immediately surrounded by mares and foals who nuzzle him with tenderness, oblivious of their almost certain fate: the slaughterhouse.

Barring an unlikely reprieve, Mesa's purebreds will be turned into horse meat for export come July. They are victims of a wrenching economic downturn that has wiped out fortunes, turned housing developments into ghost towns and left more than a quarter of the population out of work.

http://news.yahoo.com/legendary-horses-latest-victim-spains-bust-07...

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After Henry Ford invented the model T care to guess what happened to alot of horses in this country?

 

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So sad. For everybody concerned.