The CHRB reports that Rio King perished at Pleasanton yesterday, no details released. Rio was four and had been put to the whip 14 times, most recently May 29 at Golden Gate. Also, the Kentucky Commission has released the details…
The cruel saga of 12-year-old King’s House is scheduled to continue tonight. Since I last reported on King’s in March, he has been raced five times – for a “career” total of 116. Not coincidentally, King’s has been raced exclusively…
The CHRB reports that Auntie Mimi was killed (“musculoskeletal,” for now) while training at Santa Anita yesterday. Auntie was four years old and was coming off a year of inactivity (her first and only race was a year ago May).…
In horseracing, there’s everyday, garden-variety abuse, and then there’s the truly egregious. In the latter category is what’s happening to the horse known as Laddie Boy. Laddie turned 12 in February. Bad enough. But get this: tonight, he will be…
In advance of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes… Since the Gaming Commission began disclosing such things in 2009, 612 horses have lost their lives at Belmont Park – an average of almost 45 per year. At a minimum, this should give you…
I’m happy to report that a bill that would “prohibit any person from possessing, selling, importing, etc, a horse or horseflesh if such person knows or should have known that any part of such horse or horseflesh will be used…
I first met Bill Neal at the 2019 National Animal Rights Conference in Washington, D.C. Bill was there to screen his documentary Long Gone Wild, which gave us both an update on the continuing captivity of the SeaWorld orcas (and…
A world away from Churchill Downs and the now-familiar names of that track’s recent victims, yet another horse died at a decidedly less-glamourous venue and no one seems to care. According to the chart for the 1st at Mountaineer last…
Freezing Point was killed at Churchill May 6, Derby Day. Here are the details from the Racing Commission: “This colt pulled up with an injury to his left forelimb. The colt was sedated, a Kimzey splint applied, and [he] was…
A Horse Racing Nation piece Friday on Churchill moving its operation to sister-track Ellis was of interest only for a few quotes from the never-boring Dale Romans (see this on Lasix), trainer of one of the Churchill 12, 3-year-old Rio…
