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Postby Nancy T » Mon May 20, 2013 3:33 pm

80 horses killed on one farm :(

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Postby ratherrapid » Mon May 20, 2013 3:43 pm

was it celestial acres?

looks like it. Orr Family farm. Glen Orr. Celestial Acres training center 5f race track blown off the map it looks like. Unbelievable. Click down to the vid "looks like movie Twister--its an exercise rider that tried to save horses.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/us/oklahoma-tornado-developments/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Postby Firebrand » Mon May 20, 2013 9:03 pm

Here's another article about the farm -

http://www.examiner.com/article/tornado ... 00-animals

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Postby Skipitgirl » Tue May 21, 2013 5:33 am

http://weather.aol.com/2013/05/20/photo ... oklahoma/7 amazing anything was able to walk out of that.....

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Postby TJ » Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 am

One trainer lost all his horses at Celestial Acres. TJ
http://www.drf.com/news/trainer-loses-e ... ma-tornado

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Postby Sysonby » Wed May 22, 2013 6:40 pm

There is a very sad photo circulating on Twitter of the piles of dead horses.

Just awful.

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Postby Sysonby » Wed May 22, 2013 7:19 pm

Yeah that's the one. I would imagine that the horses are probably not insured but I hope the farm itself was.

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Postby Nancy T » Thu May 23, 2013 4:24 pm

I read that they found a three year old filly "Sasha’s Image" lying on her side under two barn doors and she is okay. I little bright spot anyway