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Jayson Baxter, producer and co-host of CTV News at 5, shares part four of the personal story of Saving Sammy, his familys beloved racehorse.

  HALIFAX, N.S. -- Jayson Baxter, producer and co-host of CTV News at 5, shares part three of the personal story of Saving Sammy, his familys beloved racehorse. “What’s her number Dad?” I asked. Sammy has women I consider his guardian angels. Kim Sloan is one of them. She used to train racehorses like him in Ohio. However, when her racing career ended she switched her focus to saving them instead. Sloan volunteers with the Standardbred Retirement Foundation, which rescues former rac...

  Jayson Baxter, producer and co-host of CTV News at 5, shares the personal story of Saving Sammy, his family’s beloved racehorse. Sammy was going to be meat. A horse, so loved for the first five years of his life, was going to end up on a dinner plate somewhere in Europe, or maybe Asia. At 15, he was tired, severely dehydrated, fighting infection and scheduled for shipment and slaughter. He looked broken and emaciated as he stood in a Pennsylvania kill pen overcrowded with doomed horses. ...