The final report is in on Splendid Song, killed at Delaware Park Jul 4. From the stewards: “Splendid Song appeared to have a cardiac episode just past the finish and expired on track.” So she was not, as the chart…
“But the greatest of all the prejudices we have retained from infancy is that of believing that brutes think.” (Rene Descartes, 1649) “When a Creature has given such convincing and undeniable Proofs of the Terrors upon him, and the Pains…
A follow-up to a post I did a month ago… In my estimation, the very worst we humans do to animals is lock them in tiny spaces – cages, crates, etc. – spaces so small they are unable to turn…
Not horseracing but… Deniz, a 16-year-old enslaved in the NYC carriage-horse industry, collapsed and died while “working” in Central Park Tuesday. He is the second NYC carriage horse to suffer that fate in less than a year (Lady, 15, collapsed…
As most of you know, Nicole and I are ethical vegans and were established animal-liberation activists before we launched HW in 2013. That is why this appeared on our website from the start: “While our focus here is on a…
For anyone with even a modicum of compassion, cockfighting is abhorrent (if unfamiliar, here’s an overview). In fact, animal fighting of any kind is so generally reviled it is banned both federally and in every U.S. state and, importantly, in…
A video – here – has surfaced that appears to show jockeys (and brothers) Irad and Jose Ortiz collecting cash at a cockfight in Puerto Rico. Not that it matters, but it is unclear when the video was taken. (The…
The NYS Gaming Commission reports this for M J’s Yoshida at Belmont Monday: “fell outside her barn resulting in hind-leg paralysis, euthanized due to poor prognosis.” She was three years old and being prepped for her sixth race. Also, we…
