They were meant to speed through race tracks. Instead, they were left to die. Almost 50 thoroughbred racing horses were rescued from a stud farm in Aligarh, 130 km from Delhi, last week. On November 27, a Delhi-based NGO called Friendicoes, acting on a tip off, rushed a team to the Doaba stud farm. They found 49 horses - gaunt, wounded and starving - and brought them to a farm in Gurgaon where six more died.