From the this-should-make-you-sick department:
As I previously relayed, the weather in the Saratoga region Wednesday was oppressive – temps 90 degrees and up. That, of course, didn’t stop the exploiters – or oppressors, if you like – as all nine races were run. At least three horses that day suffered heat-related issues and another two were “vanned off” with injuries. One of those who experienced what the chartwriter called “heat distress” was Corruption. Here are excerpts from a Thoroughbred Daily News article on him:
“Just after 6:30 on a dreary, rainy Thursday morning, a 4-year-old gelding named Corruption, with a long white blaze on his face, stuck his dark brown head out of his stall at Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse’s barn on the Saratoga backstretch. Bright-eyed and inquisitive, he gobbled up a peppermint. If he could have spoken, he might have said, ‘what’s the big deal? I feel fine.’ About 15 1/2 hours prior, he wasn’t.
“After winning Saratoga’s fourth race on Wednesday and returning to the winner’s circle, Corruption…was in distress. It appeared as though he was impacted by Wednesday’s 90-degree heat. Corruption fell, got back to his feet but was wobbly for several minutes while a team of racing guardian angels jumped into action.
“‘That was fantastic,’ [trainer Mark] Casse said outside his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. ‘I was just in awe. It was a big negative to see the horse go down like that in front of everyone, but then the love and the positive overrode all of that.’
“[Jockey] Jose Ortiz said there was never any thought of not helping the struggling horse. After jumping off, he never left Corruption. ‘That is what we do, we love the horses,’ Ortiz said Thursday morning. ‘I was happy that everyone jumped in and tried to help. We did what we were supposed to do and we basically saved him.’
“The jockeys rushed buckets of ice to pour on Corruption to help cool him down. Trackside hoses were used. Casse said that one of his employees…was in tears watching the whole scene unfold. ‘I told her it was okay,’ Casse said. ‘She said she wasn’t crying because of that; she said she was crying because so many people helped. Nobody gets that these horses are like our kids. It hurts. I have had horses with heat exhaustion, but this was pretty bad. It scared the hell out of me. I am sure it scared the hell out of him.'”
“If he could have spoken, he might have said, ‘what’s the big deal? I feel fine.'”
“It appeared as though he was impacted by Wednesday’s 90-degree heat.”
“It was a big negative to see the horse go down like that in front of everyone, but then the love and the positive overrode all of that.”
“That is what we do, we love the horses…we basically saved him.”
Yes, you saved him after you almost killed him. As for “these horses are like our kids,” here’s a challenge “horsemen”: Treat your human kids like you do your horse ones. Lock them, alone, in a tiny room for 23 hours a day; drug them without their consent; lead them around by nose chains and lip chains; tie their tongues down; shove bits in their mouths for control; and beat them with whips. And please, do that whipping outside, in all kinds of weather – including 90-degree days. Oh, and one more thing, don’t forget to put your children up For Sale. These racing people are as delusional as they are depraved.
Sorry, I made a mistake by saying he claimed the horse, RYDER, was 16 years old. He claimed the horse was 13 years old. I believe the age limit was 16 years old for carriage horses in New York City.
There is another extremely vomit worthy story in The Observer about the case of the filthy lying creep who forced a retired-from-racing Standardbred that was about 26 years old to pull a carriage in New York City until the horse collapsed on the street and that wasn’t bad enough. He also whipped the horse to get up but the horse could not get up.
The filthy lying creep who forced the horse to work until collapsing on the street had said the horse was 16 years old. He broke the rules of the “xxx carriage horse association” and the person responsible for allowing him to break the rules and abuse this horse they called RYDER also spoke in defense of the horse-abusing thug, the filthy lying creep.
As if that is not bad enough, the article in The Observer also reports this filthy lying creep as saying that he loves horses. It is an abomination and an outrage that the powers-that-be can and did throw this horse, RYDER, under the bus.
It also shows how the “association” does not enforce its own rules at the expense of the horse.
So we’re supposed to believe the abusers are now the “saviors”. That is rich.
Mark Casse has no idea what horses are thinking. In reality, “If he could have spoken” he might have said, ‘Why were you whipping me? What happened to my mom? What’s in that needle? Etc…’.
Anyone who can’t see the abuse has their vision is obscured by piles of real or imagined money.
When human children are are kept confined and trafficked and forced to perform, it is called “child sex trafficking and abuse”.
This poor horses suffering was completely unnecessary. No equine activities that are strenuous should be done when temps are at 90f & > 30% humidity. Most all the equipment used in equine activities we don`t care for. These people are not facing reality.
When I read that article the other day, I had to both laugh out loud and thought how puke-worthy it was. We should tally up how many Casse (both Mark and Norm) horses have been vanned off and injured this year, or worse. There have been quite a few. Maybe they didn’t love those ones like their children.