Last week, the Wyoming Gaming Commission made a rulings dump for the past year. Amid a slew of drug violations – mephentermine, phentermine, clenbuterol, albuterol, et al. – various incidents of “obscene language,” connections skipping out on the post-race urine…
Saturday afternoon, Norman Cash will race Beverly Park at Fair Grounds in Louisiana. It will be the 5-year-old’s 47th race – but 30th just this year. That’s 30 races, one year (all under Cash). To make matters more abhorrent, after…
Recently, one of our California activists pressed the CHRB for answers on the 75 horses (below) injured on state tracks who have not been heard from since. Here is the Board’s response: “It appears that you are mistakenly identifying horses…
Although I am generally loath to villainize individual exploiters – choosing instead to indict the industry – I do occasionally make exceptions. Doug (aka “Drug”) O’Neill has a well-earned reputation as a cheater – with cheating, in horseracing, almost always…
Ethical veganism is a philosophy – a way of life that holds that it is fundamentally wrong to use (and of course kill) other species for our ends. (I must include the “ethical” qualifier, as there are people who are…
Today, the second day of the Breeders’ Cup and one of global racing’s richest days, two horses were injured and “vanned off” the Keeneland track. In the $2 million BC Mile, Domestic Spending suffered what trainer Chad Brown called “a…
The following comes from Bergen Stables, owner of the 2-year-old Hey Hey Dancer: There is nothing more detestable in racing than when the “connections” invoke the “Rainbow Bridge” after they themselves have done the killing. Even worse, here, Bergen reassures…
Saturday, the intellectually and emotionally challenged Keri Brion was all geared up for another joyous day of steeplechase abuse, this one at Shawan Downs in Maryland. But alas, four of her horses were vet-scratched, and she’s none too happy about…
Yet another of Burton Sipp’s abused slaves, Captain D, was put to the whip Monday at Mountaineer: dead-last, 33+ lengths back. Sipp, of course, laughed all the way to the bank, as Mountaineer, being a taxpayer-subsidized operation, paid him anyway.…
From yesterday: 3-year-old Flashfire was “reluctant to load” prior to the 4th at Canterbury, was raced anyway, pulled up in the stretch, and subsequently “vanned off.” 4-year-old Smitten by Kitten was “fractious in the gate” prior to the 10th at…
