How did 3-year-old Grace the Law fare in the 9th race at Gulfstream yesterday? Well. “Grace the Law settled off the early pace while never far back, chased between rivals
into the turn, lost action at the 3/8 marker, was pulled up at the 5/16 pole and was euthanized on the track.” And that’s that. Next horse (victim) up.
Also, the NYS Gaming Commission has belatedly reported this for Watdoyousay Jose at Belmont Nov 11: “finished a gallop this morning; when she turned around to jog back, she collapsed and died at the 5/8 pole.” That’s “collapsed and died” – at the age of three.
This is horseracing.
I live in Saratoga and have been concerned for race horses for many years. Many truths are being told; horse racing will not stop until greedy humans do not view the horrible sport as entertainment. NY racing commission has no reason to further regulate it. The vets are being paid large sums to clear horses to run.
Something struck me; horse lovers should protest and make a nuisance of themselves at horse farms, researching those with the highest rate of horse deaths. When protests hit the news, people stand up and notice.
WHERE ARE THE LAWS?? WHERE IS HISA. Money rules! These are all millionaires & billionaires behind the racing industry. That is the problem!
Sad but true; horse races won’t go away until the people who bet on them stop. I don’t see that happening.
Thank you, Lisa. There is a long list of things that are absolutely abnormal about the lives of horses doomed to be racehorses as I am certain that you also know.
Those horse breeding farms that make it a practice to traumatize broodmares and their newborn foals and a second broodmare that is not a racehorse and her newborn foal are responsible for so much abuse and cruelty to horses. It is an atrocity what these arrogant, cruel, greedy people do to horses. The mom horse and her baby are both traumatized in unimaginable ways so they can breed the mare sooner to use her to have another foal deemed more “valuable” than the nurse mare’s foal. It is beyond disturbing what happens to the foals of the nurse mares.
There is a list of injuries to horses that are specific to racing in a book written decades ago. It is a well known fact that these certain types of injuries only happen to horses exploited for racing.
I think most people know that being a whistleblower is not popular. Those who blow the whistle on egregious wrongs in any industry are usually not welcome to say the least.
Well, Horseracing Wrongs must keep on blowing the whistle on the egregious mistreatment of horses in the equine industry.
Wanda, I know you know this, but what is normal for horses is walking around while they graze, and running when they have to and resting when they want to. Not one second of a race horse’s life is normal horse behavior for a horse.
It isn’t normal for horses to collapse and die suddenly. You would never see any horse collapse and die suddenly while grazing on a pasture or being handled in a normal way. Racing horses or forcing them to “train” by whipping them around a racetrack is extremely abnormal activity for any horse regardless of what they are bred for. A horse is still a horse.