More than 40 horses killed in Canada stable fire

A barn fire at Classy Lane Training Centre in Puslinch, Ont. started at roughly 11 p.m. on Monday, January 4 and claimed the lives of more than 40 Standardbred racehorses.

Multiple fire departments responded to the scene including detachments from nearby Hamilton, Guelph and Cambridge. “No different”, he said in an interview with Newstalk1010 in Toronto on Tuesday morning.

Trot Insider has learned that the fire destroyed Barn 1, which housed horses trained by Ben Wallace, Roger Mayotte, Chantal Mitchell, Kris Di Cenzo and Dan Lagace.

“We consider this a horse community and it is absolutely devastating”, Goode told a news conference.

The Classy Lane website says the facility opened in 2003 and has five barns that accommodate more than 220 horses.

The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshall has been contacted and an investigation into the cause of the fire will completed.

Millier said all of the horses are standardbreds owned by trainers who race them at the Mohawk, Woodbine and Flamboro racetracks.

“This is a multi-million dollar fire, the highest dollar loss that we have experienced in our township”, he said.