A second NY Standardbred (Rainin Fire) has been reported dead from last Tuesday. Image of Luck, being raced in the 2nd at Yonkers, suffered a lacerated cannon bone and was, according to the Gaming Commission, euthanized at the hospital.
Also, the Commission has recently added another victim from July: 3-year-old Leverage shattered a cannon while training at Finger Lakes July 13 – euthanized where he lay. Prior to dying, the pubescent horse had been put to the whip five times.
This is horseracing.
The fact that these two horses IMAGE OF LUCK and LEVERAGE suffered the miserable life of a racehorse resulting in their deaths is totally UNACCEPTABLE. We are living in the 21st Century and we as a society allow this abhorrent abuse upon these helpless voiceless noble horses to continue???