40 Sick Horses Are Removed From Ranch
From Times Wire Reports
More than 30 investigators descended Thursday on the 2,000-acre Gardner Ranch -- home to about 600 mustangs -- looking for evidence of cruelty, neglect and abuse by the owner, Slick Gardner. By late afternoon, sheriff’s deputies had removed 40 of the sickest horses.
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