Elaine Curie (retired international rider) testifies remotely supporting ban
Elaine Curie, a retired international rider with 70 years of horse experience, testifies remotely that horses eat poisonous plants when hungry, that NYC carriage horses are already arthritic and used before arriving, and that horses only lie down when they feel safe.
Elaine Curie, C-U-R-Y, is next.
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Elaine Curie.
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Stop pressing your mute button.
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Okay, so.
All right, now you're good.
Don't touch anything.
I won't touch anything.
Okay, thank you very much.
Start it over.
I'll do this as quick as I can.
First of all, South Carolina has nothing to do with New York City.
So all that that's great in South Carolina, it doesn't apply here.
I would like to make two points that were not made during the expert testimony that you had all day.
And I have been here since 10 o'clock in the morning.
I was born in New York City.
We have property in New York City.
Having said that, I am a retired international rider.
I have 70 years of...
High horse experience.
I also drive.
I have driven for 20 years.
So I have some experience in driving.
One of the points was that one of your councilmen had a problem.
He was berating one of your garden
committee men about having use in New York City.
Horses is a
are born with an innate sense of what they can eat and what they can't eat.
I think they have like a memory of like three or 500 plants that they can eat and what they cannot eat.
When a horse eats something that's poisonous, it's because they're hungry.
And so they will eat what's available.
That's number one.
The other thing, the other point I wanted to make is that it's not just working these horses in New York City.
That's bad enough.
But these horses, these particular horses, have navicular.
They're arthritic.
They are already used before they come to New York City, and they are not.
Taken care of by expert horsemen as they would like to pretend.
They turn them out in any condition.
One of the examples of that is lady and rider.
And the last point I wanted to make was that when a horse falls down on the ground, whether they are...
Time expired.
You need to summarize because we need to move on.
When they fall down on the ground, it's because they absolutely can't.
Horses do not like to get down on the ground unless they feel they're safe.
And I thank you for listening.
Thank you.
All right, next is Marietta Hoare.