PETA Investigates A Third Race Horse Death On The Set Of HBO’s Luck
Feb. 13 2012, Published 2:30 p.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Horse loving viewers of HBO’s latest original series, Luck, were left reeling when a fictional horse was put down in the first episode of the show and were distraught to discover two real life race horses died during filming, and now Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned that there may have been a third four-legged victim on set.
“There has been at least two confirmed deaths of horses on the set, and there may have been a third death that it is not yet substantiated,” Kathy Guillermo, Vice President with PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals), told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview on Monday.
“We were told that during the filming of two racing sequences, that two horses broke down probably with broken legs and then were euthanized,” Guillermo explained, adding that although they have asked for more details, HBO has yet to answer many of their questions.
“This is fiction, but for the horses it is real and it is deadly,” she stressed.
According to a statement from the network behind the drama, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, and is filmed at Santa Anita Racetrack near Los Angeles, the deaths occurred in two separate incidents in 2010 and 2011.
"From the very outset of this project, the safety of the animals was of paramount concern to us," HBO said in a statement to the AP last week. "Recent assertions of lax attitudes or negligence could not be further from the truth."
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