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 30, 2016 | Whipping
The California Horse Racing Board has approved a measure that will increase – yes, increase – the number of times a jockey is allowed to strike his horse down the stretch. Currently, jockeys must wait for a “response” after three consecutive...
by Patrick Battuello | Apr 12, 2016 | Recommended, Whipping
“Last year more than 100,000 people attended the Melbourne Cup, with more than 3 million watching the race on TV in Australia alone. This would have to make whipping in horse-racing the most public form of violence to animals in Australia today, but most people...
by Patrick Battuello | Mar 11, 2016 | Whipping
This is horseracing… 5-year-old Forgetthefantasy’s run in the 8th Sunday afternoon at Parx was described thus by Equibase: “FORGETTHEFANTASY…dropped back on the turn, began to bear out nearing the stretch, drifted wider racing into stretch, was...
by Patrick Battuello | Feb 10, 2016 | Whipping
From the Los Alamitos Stewards Minutes, January 23: “Jockey Efrain Hernandez was in to review the third race on Saturday evening where he struck his horse [Sibernation] four times right handed approaching the far turn. Mr. Hernandez explained that he just lost...
by Patrick Battuello | Feb 1, 2016 | Whipping
From the Los Alamitos Stewards Minutes, January 1: “Jockey Santiago Mendez was in to review his ride in the eighth race from the previous Sunday evening, when he over-cropped his horse, #5 “Ivy’s Storm,” approximately a dozen times without a pause. Mr. Mendez...
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