by Patrick Battuello | Aug 15, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Featured
From the Daily Racing Form: At Del Mar, 4-year-old Unusualy “collapsed after completing a five-furlong workout Monday and perished.” According to the paper, he is the 13th track-related kill there this summer – 6 racing, 7 training. There have also...
by Patrick Battuello | Aug 10, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Featured
It’s hard to say how many fatal paddock fractures and “sudden cardiac events” occur just prior to scheduled races, for these deaths are typically buried as mere “vet scratches” on the official race charts. Sometimes, though, insight comes...
by Patrick Battuello | Jul 30, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Featured
Equibase reports at least three horses as “broke down” Friday; “broke down,” virtually without exception, is an industry euphemism for dead. 3-year-old Abeachindynasty in the 6th at Arapahoe 5-year-old Infosec in the 3rd at Santa Rosa...
by Patrick Battuello | Jul 24, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Featured, Recommended
I was at Saratoga Race Course yesterday – along with 40 or so other activists. We were there, of course, to protest the systemic abuse and killing of horses for entertainment. On this gorgeous upstate-NY summer day, 30,000 souls merrily marched through the front...
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