As we previously reported, two horses – Keeping It Country and Awesome Cause – were killed racing at Parx Tuesday. In that post, I noted that in KIC’s race, First Money was an “injured/vanned off” – wording that more often than not translates to dead. And indeed he is. So, that makes it three horses…

The big issue (beyond the horses’ well-being, of course) in the NY slaughter-truck case is the lack of charges against Bruce Rotz (and/or his company, Rotz Livestock). After all, these were his horses; he is the killer-buyer who was sending them to what would have been their bloody, gruesome ends at a Canadian abattoir. Alas,…

Ewing was raced at Colonial Aug 8. That, apparently, was his final race as his owners then shipped him down to Florida for “reschooling” and “reeducating” – whatever that means. Today, the TDN reports that Ewing “passed away Tuesday at trainer Mark Casse’s farm in Ocala, the result of a freak accident.” (Yes, yet another…

Parx, like the other five tracks in Pennsylvania, is being wholly propped up by taxpayer dollars – roughly $200M annually for the six tracks combined, almost $4B since the subsidies began in 2004. So what are the good citizens of PA getting for that? Well, among other things, animal cruelty and animal killing. On the…