by Patrick Battuello | Jun 11, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Horseracing As Sport, Recommended
3-year-old Just Dance With Me died while training at Hoosier Park Tuesday. Nothing unusual there; what is is how this particular kill transpired: The Standardbred “veered off the track,” went through a fence – and drowned in an infield pond. Imagine...
by Patrick Battuello | May 28, 2016 | Advocacy, Horseracing As Sport, Recommended
Wayne Pacelle, president/CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has penned a blog post that should shock and enrage every (true) animal advocate on the planet, as he betrays, once more, the very creatures he purports to defend. Calling for tighter...
by Patrick Battuello | May 16, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Horseracing As Sport, Recommended
Horseracing kills horses – every day, scores over the course of a year. For an industry whose long-term economic outlook is ominous (see recent Newsweek piece “Horse Racing Fading in Revenue, Popularity”), this simple fact should in time help sound...
by Patrick Battuello | May 7, 2016 | Horseracing As Sport, Recommended
My great challenge here is to get people – the American public, or at least a tipping-point section of it – to see through the distractions, the deceits – the lies. This, of course, is no easy task, for if nothing else Racing boasts a finely-tuned...
by Patrick Battuello | Jan 15, 2016 | Horseracing As Sport, Ongoing Abuse
Wednesday at Penn National (from Equibase charts): race 2: Stand by Your Man – “vanned off” race 4: Arrest in Pieces – “ran off when he got to the gate, reluctant to load once they got him back”; finished last, 21+ lengths back race...
by Patrick Battuello | Dec 23, 2015 | Dead Athletes, Horseracing As Sport
The NFL’s Week 15 schedule was played from Saturday to Monday. Not a single player, of course, lost his life. Here is a partial list of the “equine athletes” who were killed during that same three-day stretch: 4-year-old Redneck Lazy in the 4th...
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