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. “open fracture”: bone broke through the skin “comminuted fracture”: bone shattered into multiple pieces “displaced fracture”:…
Cheap Bar, said the chart, “fell after the wire” of the 9th at Los Alamitos Saturday and was ambulanced off. We now know (CHRB) he was later euthanized. Dead, at the age of three. This, every day, is horseracing.
The following horses were injured in U.S. races last week and had to be removed from the track by “equine ambulance.” While fates remain unknown at this time, please know we will eventually get kill confirmations on many if not…
2-year-old Cosmic Heat was killed – “fell crossing onto the dirt” – in the 1st race at Santa Anita yesterday. She is the 9th dead horse at this hallowed track this year.
Over the course of just 6 days at Turfway (Mar 6-14), 23 horses were scratched by the regulatory vet – i.e., their exploiters had every intention of racing them – for being “injured” or “unsound,” another 31 by private vets…
One of the more risible arguments put forth by this increasingly desperate industry is that horseracing merits saving (read: bailing out) because horseracing helps “preserve open spaces.” What makes this all the worse is the severe affordable-housing crisis our nation…
The CHRB has belatedly disclosed the training kill of Eiffel at Santa Anita Saturday. They filed this as “other” – which almost always means a sudden death, usually pulmonary-related (i.e., bleeding out from the lungs). Eiffel would have turned four…
A bit of good news from steeplechase world… For the first time in almost 50 years, the Winterthur Steeplechase in Delaware will not be run this spring. Using the 75th anniversary of the onsite museum as a reason (pretext?), the…
With the Kentucky Derby just a few weeks away, a reminder: Even if you only watch or wager on one race a year, you are a part of it – the it being the everyday abuse and constant killing of…
The following horses were injured in U.S. races last week and, unless otherwise noted, had to be removed from the track by “equine ambulance.” Please know that we will eventually get death confirmations on many, if not most, through our…
An amendment to this year’s federal “farm bill” would end dogracing in all of America (currently, it only exists at two hellholes in West Virginia). The legislation is actually far more comprehensive, as it would not only ban racing here…
Through a FOIA request to the Kentucky Racing Commission, I have confirmed the following kills at that state’s tracks in the second half of 2025. Although I previously posted first-half kills – here – I will be combining all 2025…
