According to the chart for the 4th at Delaware Wednesday, two horses, Fiveclocksomewhere and Precious Sight, went down, with the latter falling over the former. While the writer added, with optimism, that both “walked onto the ambulance to be vanned off,” we now know at least one, Fiveclocksomewhere, did not survive. She was four years old. Her love-em-like-children owner, Desmond James, also had her “For Sale” the day she died. Also complicit: breeder My Meadowview, trainer Pedro Nazario, jockey Leandro Briceno, and anyone who supports this ugly industry in any way.
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I speculate that at least one of the jockeys involved was being very reckless and careless and caused the clipping of heels. That’s one of the things that Paco Lopez is famous for and some of the greediest of the greedy owners and trainers appear to “love” him.
The Jockey Club has promoted the Thoroughbred racing industry as the “Sport of Kings” for a long, long time which is strictly the promotional side of this hideous form of Animal Cruelty and gambling.
Tripadvisor absolutely positively made the right choice to officially recognize that the horse racing industry violates Animal Welfare rules.
It is only too obvious that the people of the Jockey Club are not going to give up their promotion of this psychopathic abuse, torture, and killings of horses anytime soon no matter how ugly it gets on a daily basis.
After much searching I was able to find a complete replay. It will take a miracle for Precious Sight. Also just now it’s been announced that Roy H passed away yesterday from colic at the KY Horse Park.
Elizabeth, This is not a sport. It is just a “Crooked, Crummy,Gamboling Game” as was told to us in 1986 by an English born & trained jockey we used to gallop horses with at Lone Oak Park in Salem,Oregon. So sad these poor horses don`t have the life ours have right now! Sun, grass, alfalfa hay grain when needed & attention from visitors to our farm.
My heart goes out to both Fiveclocksomewhere and Precious Sight. Two young horses went down in the same race, and both deserved so much more than to be treated as disposable commodities. Fiveclocksomewhere lost her life, and Precious Sight was also injured and vanned off. Whatever her outcome, she deserves to be remembered and cared about, too. They were living, feeling beings not entries on a chart or commodities for sale. What a travesty of a “sport!”