The 2-year-old filly Nermansa was killed training yesterday at Santa Anita. She was made in Ireland and brought here to race. A fine life, huh?
At Delaware Park, say the stewards, Devine Flameaway was scratched by the regulatory vet Oct 2 for being “lame in the post parade.” So, you know what comes next: Either Devine was injured then and there or was brought to race that day already lame. You decide. Same day, Sophie’s Cruiser “bled” after pulling up (the chart said nothing of this).
At Evangeline Thursday, this chart note for 2-year-old Dlj Teller Lil Bit: “raced with her head up, dislikes the debris [called ‘dirt’ in the comments] flying back at her.” Then this from Evangeline Saturday: “My Cc Dynasty fell to her knees, had her face in the dirt and trailed after she picked herself up.” The chartwriter went on to say that My Cc “caused her own problems and no changes were made regarding her start.”
This is horseracing.
The people in this despicable business are cold-blooded horse killers from hell.
Who would force a horse to continue to run in a race carrying a whip-wielding rider and not think twice about the cruelty of it all after she took a nose-dive into the dirt??? Enforce §1902.5 now. (Yeah, right. If that law was enforced, there would be NO horse racing in California.)