Stable fire kills 28 racehorses

Animals were ‘crying like babies’ during deadly blaze at New York training facility

Mount Hope Training Center
Mount Hope Training Center, where the blaze occurred
(Image credit: Esteban Franco/Google Maps)

More than two dozen racehorses have died after a fire broke out in a stable in upstate New York.

The barn blaze at Mount Hope Training Center, a 300-acre facility in Orange County, New York, killed all 28 horses inside in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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