RICHMOND â As if caring for five horses isnât enough work, Richmond veterinarian Amanda Burbank, her husband Casey and daughters Maizey and Ashlynn just rescued two more.
The two ex-racehorses, one a thoroughbred and the second a standardbred, are registered under the names âPink Performanceâ and âJaclyn Doodles.â The Burbank family has nicknamed them Pinkie and Jackie.
Both horses ended up in the kill pen at a horse auction in New Holland, Pennsylvania, which meant they would be loaded into a large truck with other horses and driven to an equine slaughterhouse in Canada. Horse slaughter is no longer legal in the United States, but American horses are still slaughtered in Canada and Mexico.