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Microchip reveals racehorse meat served at Turkiye soup kitchen: reports
The horse named Smart Latch raced 13 times and won three races; a criminal inquiry is underway into suspected unlawful slaughter and mislabelling of meat as beef.
- After a diner complaint in February, authorities revealed that Smart Latch, a retired four-year-old English racehorse, was slaughtered and served at a Mersin municipality soup kitchen in kavurma.
- Owner Suat Topcu said he arranged a donation to a riding club using a local transporter but did not know what happened next; the ministry fined him 132,000 Turkish lira for not reporting it.
- Experts from the General Directorate of Food and Control traced a microchip in the kavurma to Adana Yesiloba Hippodrome and identified it as Smart Latch, which raced there as recently as October.
- Authorities believe an unlawful slaughter most likely occurred, and a criminal inquiry is underway as investigators suspect the meat was falsely labelled and sold to the company that supplies the municipality.
- Mersin Metropolitan Municipality said meat supplies are procured through open tenders and re-examined after allegations on February 4, while owner Suat Topcu told DHA 'We are in distress' on March 13.
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