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13-Year-Old: “Severe hemorrhage [during race] leading to hypovolemia, shock, and sudden death.”

Through a FOIA request to the California Horse Racing Board, I have obtained the following details on some of that state’s kills in 2025 (previous ones here). “open fracture”: bone broke through the skin “comminuted fracture”: bone shattered into multiple…

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“Horse went down, couldn’t stand back up – [multiple] displaced vertebral fractures, hemorrhage within spinal canal, compression of spinal cord.”

Through a FOIA request to the California Horse Racing Board, I have obtained the following details on some of that state’s kills in 2025 (previous ones here). “open fracture”: bone broke through the skin “comminuted fracture”: bone shattered into multiple…

Read More“Horse went down, couldn’t stand back up – [multiple] displaced vertebral fractures, hemorrhage within spinal canal, compression of spinal cord.”