As part of the campaign to end horseracing subsidies in Pennsylvania, I have been asked to compile a list of industry victims over the past five years. I reproduce it here. (If you haven’t already signed our PA change.org petition,…
Churchill Downs is the host of today’s Kentucky Derby. Here are some (some, not all) of the racehorses killed at that track over just the past three years. Connect the dots. (Prior to 2020, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission refused…
Today is Kentucky Derby Day, a day in which the The Big Lie is at its most obscene. NBC and mint juleps; “The Run for the Roses,” “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports.” But the truth is, today is…
With the FOIAs done for 2021, follows is the final list. The toll – a shade under 1,000 – is a bit higher than 2020’s, which (yet again) reveals the Jockey Club’s “database,” with its supposed evidence of “improving safety,”…
Last week, legislators in New York announced a bill that would redirect nearly a quarter-billion dollars in annual subsidies from the racing industry to public-good things like education and human services. Horseracing Wrongs, I write proudly, is part of the…
The following is a list of horses who died or were euthanized at Camarero Race Track (Puerto Rico) in 2020. Please note, however, that this information came from just one of the two on-site clinics there. In other words, there…
As racing resumes at more tracks across the country, The Breeders’ Cup (BC) and The Jockey Club have rolled out a national ad campaign entitled “Still. Running. Strong.” Says Drew Fleming, BC president and CEO: “As more of our major…
Lasix, as I’ve said, is a divisive issue, and the recent announcement – which, I remind, is but a diversion – that Santa Anita will be phasing-out the drug has brought that issue back under the spotlight. Throwing its considerable…
Today is Travers Day, among a handful of the most celebrated on the U.S. racing calendar. The feature, of course, is the Grade 1 Travers Stakes, at once historic – first run in 1864, it is billed as the oldest…
As the nation readies itself for Racing’s high holy day, I give you this, my list of dead racehorses (just track-related, mind you – not including the thousands of the recently “retired” who met violent, bloody ends in North American…
My great challenge here is to get people – the American public, or at least a tipping-point section of it – to see through the distractions, the deceits – the lies. This, of course, is no easy task, for if…
The Triple Crown is a ruse – this is horseracing: Racehorses Killed on American Tracks in 2014 3-year-old Aunt Meanie, January 1, Fair Grounds 9 5-year-old Uncle Smokey, January 2, Aqueduct 7 3-year-old Shand, January 2, Santa Anita 8 4-year-old…
