Blues City, says the NYS Gaming Commission, was euthanized at Finger Lakes Friday for “unresolved colic.” Blues was seven years old and had been put to the whip 56 times, most recently Aug 20 at that same track. A reminder to those racing defenders who might take umbrage with us reporting this as an industry casualty: Racehorses are at a higher risk for colic (and laminitis, and pleuropneumonia) than the general horse population. Not that that should matter, though. All kills in horseracing are by horseracing. Full stop.
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Any horse “bred for racing” that is kept in a stall for 23 hours a day and forced and whipped to gallop around the track under the weight of a whip-wielding rider is suffering and tolerating abuse.
Horses should be allowed to roam and graze on preferably large acreages but this is not conducive to the “racing” model of doing business. Limiting the time that horses are forced to be confined to 144 square feet of stall space to ten hours a day would be better for the horses but that is not conducive to this business model.
Stopping the inherent daily cruelty to the horses is not conducive to this business model. This business model is abusive to horses and the horses will always suffer at the hands of greedy die-hard horse-abusers.