The chart note for Leilauni Sue in the 1st at Parx yesterday: “Leilauni Sue suffered injury near 9/16 pole…and was subsequently euthanized.” Leilauni was five; ’twas her 16th time under the whip. Her final exploiters: Eagle’s Look Stable, Jorge Diaz, Yedsit Hazlewood.
Two other notes: The conditions, as you will see, were “rainy” and “sloppy.” In fact, so rainy and sloppy that the final four races were canceled. And the official replay, as you will see, was edited to remove any vestige of a kill, with the announcer merrily calling the finish. (Note also the busy whips – in the rain and the slop, mind you – down the stretch. Nothing says “members of the family” and “loved ones” like that, huh?)
Not caring about your horses appears to be what drives the majority of the people in the equine industry.
The racetracks, the rodeos, the Big Loop events, the Big Lick events for Tennessee Walking Horses, the livestock auctions, and the slaughter pipeline exhibit the most cold-hearted acts of NOT CARING ABOUT HORSES anyone could ever witness.
The announcer makes me wonder if she is taking Valium or something.
Back in the 1960s & 1970s, when football games were televised on one of the four major networks, they would have time outs and replays to analyze everything that each player did to see who should be penalized and why every time a player was injured. They stopped the clock until they took a lot of time to figure everything out. But, in these replays of horses being injured and crippled for life and/or killed, they just cut it out of the replay and pretend nothing bad happened. What a contrast and what a vomit-inducing bunch of people involved in horseracing.
I mourn for every beautiful horse lost to this vile industry. However, the Grey ones really pull at my heart strings.
Awful, awful conditions! Have ridden many times in conditions like these. Always felt that all races & galloping in am under such conditions should not be allowed. Terrible racing with not a very good race caller to boot. Have noticed lately there seems to be fewer good race callers at tracks. Perhaps a sign of a declining industry? Veteran race callers quitting or retiring & going onto some other career? That poor grey having to die under such horrible conditions.Hopefully states will wise up & realize that subsidizing this “Crooked, Crummy,Gamboling Game” makes no economic sense & has not for many years.
Another gorgeous grey, killed for nothing. And completely agree with you, Tami.
Anyone who cared for their horse’s lives would have scratched. Or better yet, not been racing them.