A day after Active Duty was killed at Finger Lakes, two more at that same track:
Special Pal, according to the Gaming Commission, “received [multiple] fractures” during morning training, “necessitating euthanasia.” The “recipient” of those fractures was five.
Later in the day, Igniting the Flame, says the chartwriter, “pulled up in distress” in the 5th race. She, too, was said to have “received a fracture” and was euthanized where she lay (the chart ignored that part of it). She was three.
This makes it three kills in two days at Finger Lakes, four within the past week, seven within the past month, and 13 since Apr 29. Anything to say, HISA?
RIP
After EVERYTHING horses have given to us over history….horseracing is simply pure Fk’ng EVIL. Scumbags involved in this must be made to get a REAL job! 🤬
Use and abuse continues unabated in spite of HISA’s “best efforts”! It continues because it is at the very core of racing – it is racing.
No, HISA will not be disclosing or acknowledging any information on the fact that horses are being fatally injured and euthanized at Finger Lakes racetrack or any other racetrack. The so-called Authority has taken a vow of secrecy, if you will.
It remains to be seen if HISA will enforce (by suspending the offending jockey) the whipping rules when a jockey violates the whipping rules by doing overhanded strikes with the whip on any horse, but especially BOOK’EM DANNO in the Forego Stakes 2025. Raising the hand above the jockey’s head and striking the horse with the whip is a violation of the whipping rules.
Does HISA care about violations of the rules regarding whipping when there is so much money involved for the owner and the trainer and the jockey by crossing the finish line first…???
Finger Lakes needs to be shut down but then again all horse racing tracks need to be shut down and HISA needs to stop pretending to make abusing horses as a sport seem “socially acceptable” when it is a crime what is being done to horses on a daily basis.