Stephen Colbert weighs in on Bob Baffert, but of far more import, horseracing in general. As you’ll see, he gets it. Don’t miss the forest for the trees, folks. It’s not about betamethasone. (This clip came from “The Late Show’s”…
Last week, I appeared on Ed Berliner’s “The Man in the Arena.” Here it is on YouTube:
Excerpts from an opinion piece in the Concord Monitor Wednesday: “When I was a kid, my favorite movie was ‘Phar Lap,’ based on the true story of an Australian racehorse. I loved that movie and that horse. It was tragic…
Jo Anne Normile is a former breeder and owner. Upon becoming disillusioned with the racing industry, she left and founded CANTER – the first organization in the country to take Thoroughbreds right from the track to safe havens. After leaving…
Corporate sponsorship of the horseracing industry is, obviously, a critical component. The problem with corporations, as with the public at large, is that most are oblivious to racing’s horrors. To them, it’s but another sport at which to advertise their…
The following letter from one of our followers, Rick Bowman, appears in The Roanoke Times today. I would encourage readers to leave comments on the paper’s website. Thank you, Rick. “The Kentucky Derby is upon us. This is the day…
Our mandate as an organization is to educate and expose, expose and educate. The work on these pages – the facts, the data, the documentation – is the primary manifestation of this mandate. Of course, we’re also out there –…
Today, we launched our latest petition on change.org; the goal: end the subsidies that are keeping Pennsylvania horseracing alive and killing horses. Please sign here. End the Subsidized Abuse and Killing of Horses in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s horseracing industry receives almost…
Ryan Goldberg is one of America’s finest long-form journalists; on this issue, horseracing, he is quite simply without peer. Having already covered slaughter (Deadspin, 2019), the anti-racing movement (Deadspin, 2019), and doping (Vice, 2020), Ryan has now turned his withering…
The Philadelphia Inquirer continues to be in the vanguard on the issue of horseracing. Having twice before decried the giant subsidies keeping that state’s racing industry afloat, and just last week publishing a scathing article on how those subsidies and…
Earlier this month, I highlighted the plight of Sequana at the Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico. I called it then, and stand by it now, perhaps the worst case of abuse I’ve seen. One day after I sent an…
Many, if not most, Americans, including politicians, have no idea how cruel and deadly horseracing is. So it falls to us advocates to educate. And nothing as entrenched as horseracing will end without unrelenting pressure. So please consider sending a…
