Forty EKY horses likely at a kill pen in Tenn. Time is running out | Opinion

A large group of wild horses from Breathitt County are likely at a horse dealer’s farm in Tennessee waiting to be sold either to new homes, or if not, to a slaughterhouse in Mexico or Canada.

Jason Sexton of Sexton’s Horse and Mule Company in Sneedville, Tenn., posted a Facebook video on Sunday, Aug. 17 saying about 40 horses seen eating hay had come off “a strip job in Kentucky.”

“They’ve been on the news,” Sexton says in the video. “People want to save them. You can save them because we’re going to video them tomorrow. Give everybody a chance to buy them … everybody’s been asking me about them, right here they are.”…

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