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The Ambulance Report
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (103+ words) Horseracing Wrongs The following horses were injured in U. S. races last week and had to be removed from the track by "equine ambulance." While fates remain unknown at this time, please know we will eventually get kill confirmations on many if…...
Betting (Watching) Today's Preakness Helps Make This - Dead Horses - Possible
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (670+ words) Ahead of today's Preakness Stakes, the 27 (disclosed) kills at Maryland tracks last year: Luv Ya Bye Bye, Jan 17, Laurel R "Shattered sesamoid, marked trauma-induced cartilage damage." Also: "degenerative joint disease [all four limbs]; stomach ulcers." Luv Ya, below, was five…...
3-Year-Old Killed ("Cardiac Event") on Black-Eyed Susan Day at Laurel
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (81+ words) Horseracing Wrongs In the first of the two biggest days on the Maryland racing calendar, a kill. In race 1 at Laurel today " "Black-Eyed Susan Day" " Hit Zero, says the Thoroughbred Daily News, "succumbed to an apparent cardiac event following the…...
The Ortiz Brothers, Cockfighting, and the Preakness Stakes
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (253+ words) Horseracing Wrongs For anyone with even a modicum of compassion, cockfighting is abhorrent (if unfamiliar, here's an overview). In fact, animal fighting of any kind is so generally reviled it is banned both federally and in every U. S. state and, importantly,…...
If This Doesn't Break Your Heart. ..
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (96+ words) If This Doesn't Break Your Heart" Horseracing Wrongs The chart note for Kingdom's Spirit in the 2nd at Mountaineer last night: "Kingdom's Spirit took a bad step, falling at the half-mile pole, and was euthanized on track." This poor, poor girl…...
Pulmonary Hemorrhage Aplenty Last Week
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (150+ words) The following horses were injured in U. S. races last week and had to be removed from the track by "equine ambulance." While fates remain unknown at this time, please know we will eventually get kill confirmations on many if not most…...
Video of 2-Year-Old Going Down at Sam Houston
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (49+ words) Horseracing Wrongs Trumps Train in the 8th at Sam Houston yesterday. We won't know if the 2-year-old survived until our FOIA, but" Subscribe and Get Notified of New Posts Yes, add me to your mailing list...
These Numbers Prove Racing Is Not Any "Safer" - and That We're Winning
1+ week, 4+ day ago (118+ words) As HISA trots out another supposedly glowing "safety" report, I thought it a good time to revisit this issue " the killing, that is " with context. In 2014, we confirmed 1, 104 kills at U. S. tracks (the actual number of dead horses is, of course,…...
Kill at Santa Anita, Kill at Aqueduct, Kill at Laurel
1+ week, 6+ day ago (127+ words) Horseracing Wrongs Angel's Edition, says the CHRB, was killed training at Santa Anita Sunday " no details till our FOIA. She had just (May 1) turned two and was being prepped for her first race. She becomes the 10th (that we know about)…...
HW in "The Sunday Debate" in The New York Times
1+ week, 6+ day ago (148+ words) The Sunday Debate" (scroll down a bit) in The New York Times: Yesterday was the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby. But with all of the documented problems in horse racing, is it right to continue celebrating the event? Yes. It's…...