![Top: Seattle Buddy when he arrived at the Lockwood Valley CamRacing Farm [CamRacing Farm LLC website photo] and (above) on December 10, after being starved and abused. Water was dirty and frozen, as it was on December 23 when Neigh Savers Foundation returned to rescue the horses. There was no hay on the property, they said. [Photo provided by Neigh Savers Foundation.] The horse is tattooed for positive identification.](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/SeattleBuddy-324x350.jpg)
Top: Seattle Buddy when he arrived at the Lockwood Valley CamRacing Farm [CamRacing Farm LLC website photo] and (above) on December 10, after being starved and abused. Water was dirty and frozen, as it was on December 23 when Neigh Savers Foundation returned to rescue the horses. There was no hay on the property, they said. [Photo provided by Neigh Savers Foundation.] The horse is tattooed for positive identification.
By Patric Hedlund with added reporting by Gary Meyer
The elegant thoroughbred Seattle Buddy is the son of the great 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. A cool $300,000 in stud fees were paid to produce this colt. He won $103,000 at the racetrack for his owners. But photos obtained by workers with the Neigh Savers Foundation, a thoroughbred rescue group, show that after he was put to stud by CamRacing Farm, LLC of Lockwood Valley, the glistening bay stallion was reduced to a listless, skeletal victim of dehydration, starvation and abuse.
Seattle Buddy was removed from the Lockwood Valley ranch on the night of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)
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Top: Seattle Buddy when he arrived at the Lockwood Valley CamRacing Farm and (above) on December 10, after being starved and abused. Water was dirty and frozen. There was no hay on the property, workers with the Neigh Savers Foundation said. The horse is tattooed for positive identification.
Seattle Buddy ‘at stud’ photo on CamRacing Farm, LLC’s website.
Seattle Buddy on December 10, 2014
Rescuers had been told there was two days’ food left for the 12 horses, but when they arrived the hay barn was completely empty. There was no food anywhere.
Left: As shadows lengthened on Dec. 23, wrangler Sterling Howard worked with Nicole Schwartz of Neigh Savers and volunteers to improvise chutes to calmly get the 12 unhandled horses into the trailers. They worked into the night and then drove to Riverside County to a foster facility in Temecula, arriving on Christmas eve.
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