by Patrick Battuello | Jul 29, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Recommended, Tracks
Last summer – and the summer before that – a spate of deaths had the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (and California, in general) scrambling. Dead horses are always bad for business, but most especially at such a celebrated, high-profile meet like Del Mar. So,...
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...
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 | Jun 5, 2016 | Dead Athletes, Recommended
From the Golden Gate Stewards Minutes: “Euthanized/Died – The Desert Rat. Horse was gelded Wednesday, May 25 and rolled in the stall. Got up and two-foot section of his intestines fell out of the incision.” “Two-foot section of his intestines...
by Patrick Battuello | Jun 2, 2016 | Horseracing Business, Recommended, Whipping
Although I am loath (and loathe) to give Ray Paulick, one of Racing’s more notorious hacks, “clicks” or “hits” (for I know he counts them), this short clip was too good to pass up. Speaking in the wake of the duo kills at Pimlico, Paulick...
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...
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