Star jockey Ricardo Santana Jr was arrested in Louisville Monday. The charges: first degree strangulation, assault. Yes, strangulation – which he allegedly did to his girlfriend twice that day. Besides the obvious here – someone with this level of rage…
Wednesday, the TDN published an update on jockey Martin Garcia, who was part of the six-horse “spill” at Churchill last Saturday that left at least one horse – 2-year-old Lutkenhaus – dead. Garcia’s “story of survival,” as the paper called…
This, folks, is what’s called abuse – twice over. What disgusting parents.
Last Thursday, 7-year-old Shotgun Hottie died of colic at a farm in Kentucky. As she ran her last race two years ago, normally this would not be something I note on the site. But then someone sent me this from…
Some miscellaneous notes: Wednesday at Belterra, in addition to a two-horse race and a three-horse race (a good sign for our side), there was this for the 5th race: “Authoritarian reared when the gates opened and struck the side of…
In the 3rd at Delta Friday, says the chart, Relentless Bar “fell…and was transported by equine ambulance.” Here is that fall, and how ugly it was. While confirmation will have to wait till our FOIA, I can’t imagine the two-year-old…
This Sunday is “STAR Kids Day” at Saratoga. Below is how NYRA is promoting it. All I can say is indoctrinating children – some pre-school age – into animal abuse is about as despicable as it gets. An unadulterated obscenity.…
The Thoroughbred Daily News has been asking industry insiders what racing’s biggest problem is. Here is HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus’ response: “Racing’s biggest problem is the perception – and at times the reality – that our industry treats horses as…
Zvi Kriple is a vile man who doubles as a racehorse trainer. Here is our post on him from November. Please read to the bottom. A recent HISA ruling on trainer Zvi Kriple. (I have made slight edits in the…
Here are Valid Connection’s final moments on this Earth. While the breakdown itself is garden-variety, I call your attention to the beating Valid received from jockey Michael Pagan immediately before it – three crisp, heavy whacks. Pagan should be in…
Despite our best efforts (thanks to all who took the action), Big Hearted Factor was indeed put to the whip last night at Miles City – two days after his most recent race, his fourth race this month (that would…
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…
