According to the chart, Hay Hay Paula was “pulled up and departed in an ambulance” in the 1st at Penn Wednesday. In fact, I have learned, she is dead. She would have turned eight next month, and this was her 45th turn under the whip. Her loving caretaker, owner/trainer Steven Chircop, also had her For Sale the day she died.
Also, the CHRB says that Fielders Choice perished at Santa Anita Tuesday. No details until our FOIA. She had just turned four and her last race was Jan 11 at that same track.
Dead horses every day – this is horseracing.
Thank you for writing. As for where horseracing is going: https://horseracingwrongs.org/shuttered-u-s-tracks-since-2000/.
Yes, horse racing is cruel. I worked in the pari-mutuel department in southern California for 26 years. I’ve seen my fair share of horses breaking down. Yet the sport goes on. I’ve seen the industry go downhill for some time now. Not sure where it is going. But the good news is I have my pension, and I definitely earned it. Dealing with the public is not an easy job. Seeing horses break down doesn’t make the job any easier either.
Hey hey Paula was pulled up any time she was goin to break down look all tracks she raced Charlestown laurel parx maybe it was a matter of time cheap races all around 4500
I think you’re spot-on, Lisa. Thank you.
I have recently noticed that the majority of race tracks , esp Churchill Downs , have very strict photography policies. They will not allow cameras over 6 inches & in some instances no removable lenses which eliminates a 300 zoom lense. I think these new policies are to eliminate photography when horses break down. Once again the tracks must control the images that get out in the public domain by controlling the images patrons at the track take and publish. This is a result of the work you have done to show the photographic images death of racehorses. The race tracks fear any image that is not in there favor so now they control the photography rights of patrons at the track.
To say “…departed in an ambulance” sounds strange compared to the usual “vanned off” or “ambulanced off” or “transported off the track in equine ambulance”.
It is disgusting and despicable that not only so many horses are injured and killed by the depraved people of this cruel industry but that they also think they have to come up with different euphemisms to convey the same message; horse was forced to gallop under saddle, rider, whip and very possibly illegal hand-held electrical shocking device until horse broke down with catastrophic injuries. Horse was killed and disposed of.
Winner’s Circle celebration continued as usual, Gamblers with winning tickets cashed in, losers did not. Next race, in your face, nobody goes to jail for killing a horse that was used as a gambling chip.