Chart notes from U.S. Thoroughbred and Quarterhorse races last week.
Under the Knife “vanned off” at Finger Lakes
Field of Courage “took a bad step, euthanized on track” at Mountaineer
St Joe “vanned off” at Delta
Moro Flyboy “bled, vanned off” at Delta
Graham’s Cruiser “vanned off” at Delta
Yes I’m a Beast “vanned off” at Tampa Bay
Savage “vanned off” at Delta
Big Daddy Dave “vanned off” at Gulfstream
Equalizer “bled” at Aqueduct
Countess Constance “bled” at Aqueduct
Windsor’s Star “pulled up lame, vanned off” at Charles Town
Divieto “bled” at Churchill
Bellas First Rogue “fell, DNF” at Evangeline
Golden Sun Drops “vanned off” at Fair Grounds
Johanny “vanned off” at Churchill
“Vanned Off”: Horse required equine ambulance to get off the track; while not all end up dead, most do, as borne out by our subsequent reporting. “Bled”: pulmonary hemorrhage.
I think a lot of these people get an adrenaline rush out of the excitement and tension and so forth in exploiting horses for racing and wagering also.
Plain and simple, Wanda, they don’t….. They just lie. But they do love that $$$$ money the racehorses bring in!
-Joe
How can people claim to love horses while willfully subjecting them to this horrendous abuse? This is the world we live in.
The inability to breathe through their mouths only adds to their fragility when experiencing pulmonary hemorrhage. The overuse of Lasix is a vain attempt to control bleeding, but considering the punishing regimen the horses are put through to get ‘race-ready’ it’s kind of a moot point.
-Joe
When racehorses suffer from pulmonary hemorrhage and the sacs fill with blood instead of oxygen, they could still drown in their own blood even if they could breathe through their mouth.
Most people are unaware that horses cannot breathe through their mouths like humans, but only through their nostrils.
-Joe
That’s an excellent question, Linda. I would like to know the answer to that question also; except that I don’t think there is any information to follow. I think it’s just all b******* for the sake of “appeasing the gods” as the saying goes.
Thank you, Lisa. They made a point to talk about the pony rider; I don’t remember her name or which state she came from, but she traveled to be at the Derby to do her job with this particular horse.
She had a way of calming the horse that evidently nobody else had so that was a big deal at the time and the telling of that story was part of the build-up to the big race.
And then, he bled in the big race broadcast on national television.
The racehorse that you are referring to was Demons Begone 1987 Kentucky Derby that was won by Alysheba. Demons bled profusely on the backstretch and was pulled up by jockey Pat Day
That is absolutely horrifying. The NYState Gaming Commission will note that more information to follow or investigation to follow. So where does this information get posted? I don’t see any updates added to any of these incidents.
Linda, it’s called Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH). Many horses do not finish the race they are running in because of bleeding from the lungs.
One year, I forget which year, but I think it was in the 1980s, there was a dark bay horse (whose name I cannot recall) running in the Kentucky Derby that was either the favorite or at least one of the favorites. Shortly after the start of the race, all of a sudden, he experienced bleeding from the lungs. He automatically slowed down. He Did Not Finish the race. Of course, being the Kentucky Derby, this race was being broadcast on national television on either ABC or NBC. Sorry, I don’t recall at the moment which year the Triple Crown races were switched from ABC’s Wide-World of Sports to being aired on NBC.
Some of the these horses known as bleeders still appear to be healthy and beautiful horses that some people might think would make good prospects for other riding events, especially English Equitation and Jumping classes in horse shows. From what I read and have seen in pictures and videos, the bleeders cannot canter without bleeding from the lungs. It’s definitely horrible.
They bleed from their lungs, and it is visibly coming out of their nostrils.
The small air sacs in the lungs burst with sudden extreme exertion. Not every horse bleeds, but many do, and they don’t bleed visibly out of the nostrils. It just happens to coincidentally be found when they have their lungs scoped. There have also been horses that bled so extremely that they literally drowned in their own blood and dropped dead.
Bleeding in the lungs is most commonly found in racehorses, due to the exertion, and is rare in other horse sports.
Finger Lakes has had several horses finish a race, vanned off due to bleeding. Where and why are they bleeding after a race?
The weekly lists of horses being injured and killed from being exploited for racing and wagering prove that horseracing is not safe. Lip service to reform does not stop the abuse, the brutality, the cruelty or the unacceptable evil and wrongdoings inherent to horseracing.
#EndHorseracingNOW