Below is Chaste One in the 5th at Louisiana Monday. Not only does the morally-bankrupt announcer utterly ignore the fall, his excitement at race end is off the charts…
And here is Dos Zensation in the 3rd at Grants Pass, same day:
Both horses were listed as “vanned off,” but highly doubtful either, let alone both, survived. (We will know for sure with our FOIA.)
Perfect, Steve. Thank you.
Alexander, announcers make their living (profit) off the (highly subsidized) horse racing industry. We will not lay off them. Stop making excuses for them. They are highly trained individuals who excel at their craft and see the field far better than you or I, who clearly saw this immediately. Anyone, in any capacity, who participates in any way helps keep the industry alive and thus is complicit in premature and violent horse deaths. Furthermore, this race is a microcosm of the whole industry; by pumping “excitement” and ignoring equine violence as it happens he tacitly implies that horse casualties don’t matter, which is just what they want us to believe. Pick a side. Try as you might you can’t straddle the fence here.
RIP
No horse deserves to be exploited for racing and gambling. The Thoroughbred foals don’t deserve to be injected with steroids. No horse deserves to be exploited for money and ego trips as is done in this inhumane so-called sport. No horse deserves to have ulcers. A lot of people are clueless about how much the horses suffer on a daily basis.
Too many people are clueless; too many people are just morally depraved/bankrupt. Too many people are just plain sadistic.
Wanda, all horses deserve better than these horrible breakdowns. 1st time we have seen Grants Pass before on video. Just another glorified bull ring track here in Oregon, our state. Was really hoping with the leaving of Mr. Boersma, the industry here in Oregon would go away. We can take you to farms that have > 70 years history behind them in racing with LOTS of win photos in their barn office with absolutely appalling fences! The $$ of those people earned from their manufacturing business were spent on racing & not their farms infra-structure. Their property also has lots of weeds & a rental house with a very worn out roof too. Go by their place regularly. Sad to see all those $$ were not spent on their horses, some of them we rode at the track.
Nice try, Alexander Triozzi. The fact remains that the track announcer is responsible, as far as announcing the race goes, to call where each horse in the race is running. Many track announcers acknowledge the fact when a horse falls.
From the standpoint of the bettors, they generally depend on the track announcer to call out the order of where each and every horse is running, or falling, and not just the front runners.
Not only was this particular announcer not doing his job very well as far as announcing the placement of each and every horse in the race, he also is completely heartless. To defend the daily routine mistreatment of horses for racing and gambling entertainment is a sign that you do not honestly care for the well-being of the horses, Alexander.
Alex-“it freaking sucks”?? Noooo, it’s horrifying. Horses should not be subjected to that. And “lay off the announcers”?? Um, no again. Shouldn’t it be part of their transparency to tell the betting public what happened? Especially in cases where it happened off-camera? And isn’t it macabre if they’re screaming their fool head off about a winning horse as a horse is dying or struggling to get up or run on with shattered bones? Plus the possibly shattered jockeys?
Horseracing is cruelty to horses. These two videos show how heartless the people who participate in this inhumane so-called sport can be.
Horses deserve better than this.
The announcers are focused on the front horses with binoculars!! As a horse fan it freaking sucks the horse went down but lay off the announcers!!!