Star jockey Ricardo Santana Jr was arrested in Louisville Monday. The charges: first degree strangulation, assault. Yes, strangulation – which he allegedly did to his girlfriend twice that day. Besides the obvious here – someone with this level of rage issues should never be around defenseless horses – there’s this from the Breeders’ Cup (Santana…

I was recently a guest on Talk World Radio (couldn’t have titled it better myself)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1oTToEu3XM

The cruelty at Parx went beyond the mere quotidian Sunday with, as the track put it, “Exotic Animal Races featuring zebras, ostriches, and camels!” As I’ve oft said, this industry’s moral depravity knows no bounds. Here is a video made by Revolution Philadelphia (our PA partners) member Mia Rivera. Watch as a terrified ostrich flails…

In our post on My Trooper’s death at Mahoning Saturday, I noted that with Stage Name’s “bad step/vanned off” three races later, there was perhaps a second that day. We now know there was. Stage Name was six. Chief exploiter: Nestor Rivera. This now makes three racing kills – Tuned to the Moon was the…