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Horses Left to Die Behind Texas Station

Two starving horses, abandoned, locked in a horse trailer and left for dead were discovered late last week on vacant property behind Texas Station. Volunteers from a horse rescue program were able to save only one of the horses.

The two horses were found on Thursday and brought to Sandy Valley. The mare died Saturday night and volunteers are still working with this thoroughbred to save him.

His name is Godspeed. The thoroughbred was one day away from starving to death. Jill Curtis says two horses, which she named Godspeed and God Willing were left for dead on private land in Las Vegas behind Texas Station.

A good samaritan saw the horses on Thursday and called Curtis to help. Jill Curtis, the wife of actor Tony Curtis, founded the Shiloh Horse Rescue.

"You can feel his neck vertebrae, you can feel then right here these should be rounded and nice and fat like the horses of either side of him," she said.

Godspeed is not out of the woods yet. The mare, God Willing, seemed to be doing well but then suddenly collapsed Saturday night.

"We physically lifted her on a blanket into our horse trailer into the vet where she was hooked up to IV's and she just did not make it. She went downhill," she said.

That's why the thoroughbred is receiving special care, love and prayers.

He used to be a racing horse. There is a tattoo in his mouth with a certified racing number. All race horses get them. Curtis hopes to use that number to find out where this horse came from.

"He is not afraid of us anymore. He was afraid when he came in and he is not anymore. He just looks peaceful now. He did not look peaceful when he came in," said rescue co founder Sally Vandenberg.

Sally Vandenberg is Curtis' mother. She moved from San Diego to Las Vegas to help open the horse rescue. Godspeed joined 200 other horses here, saved from neglect and the slaughterhouse.

This is the fourth horse rescued from Clark County this month that look like this. No one knows who owned Godspeed and God Willing. Curtis says she is now focused on his well being.

"There is no excuse for this type of thing," said Curtis. She believes Godspeed was starved for about the last four months.

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