Chart notes from U.S. Thoroughbred and Quarterhorse races last week.
Look to the Cross “transported off course via ambulance” at Mahoning
Kiss of Spice “transported off track via ambulance” at Sunland
Boldness “bled” at Mahoning
American Toast “bled, transported back to barn in ambulance” at Mahoning
Depoli “fell, DNF” at Parx
Bundle “escorted off in ambulance” at Fair Grounds
Duvee “fell, DNF” at Fair Grounds
Linsanity “equine ambulance” at Sam Houston
Notes: Horses who are injured so badly they require an ambulance to get off the track more often than not end up dead, as borne out by our subsequent FOIA reporting. “Bled”: indicates pulmonary hemorrhage. “DNF”: unable to finish the race. (For any new confirmed kills during the week, please see our running annual list.)
It is a shame that these people associated with these racetracks are allowed to continue their neverending criminal abuse of horses! In this inhumane so-called sport, the brutality to horses that ends in catastrophic injuries to so many horses and the death of so many horses every week is a crime of ANIMAL CRUELTY.
Any true horseman would not continue to participate in this heinous cruelty. It takes seriously depraved people to commit acts of CRUELTY against horses as a matter of routine day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.
How can anyone be a veterinarian knowing what the anatomy and physiology of the horse is and know what kind of injuries are inherent to horse racing and see these gruesome injuries to these doomed horses that deserve kindness, not cruelty, and not stop their involvement in the cruelty to the horses?
Horseracing is Animal Cruelty!