This afternoon, the NYS Gaming Commission retracted its notice of My Girl Lexi’s death at Saratoga Sunday. Apparently, My Girl is still alive. Accordingly, I have deleted the post and removed My Girl from our killed list.
An update on a previous post: Horseracing-as-sport is an obscenity of the highest order. There are, of course, many reasons why, but perhaps the three most obvious are these: First, the athletes in question are utterly unaware of their status…
“They’re like our children.” “We see them as members of the family.” “They’re treated better than you and I.” “When one dies, we grieve.” Vulgar lies, all. The racehorse, in truth, is but an asset, a resource to be mined,…
When I was writing the animal-rights blog for the Albany Times Union several years back, I often focused on animal cognition and ethology. My goal was simple: By illustrating the depth of their intelligence and the richness of their social/emotional…
A reminder on Preakness Day. Horses killed in Maryland last year: I’mthekatsmeow, Jan 13, Pimlico T “This horse had been in training at Pimlico. She developed swelling…from the ankle up to at least the knee. No treatment helping…hair sloughing off.…
This morning, I present a guest post from Melanie Sue Bowles. Melanie is the founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, one of the nation’s oldest and most successful privately-run organizations for horses. Melanie has also authored three nonfiction books on…
Arizona: request filled Arkansas: request filled California: request filled Colorado: request filled Delaware: request filled – but with missing data Florida: request filled Idaho: request filled Illinois: request filled Indiana: request filled Iowa: request filled Kentucky: request filled Louisiana: request…
From state necropsy reports: Arizona “Proximal sesamoid fractures may carry an occurrence rate as high as 41.5% in racing Thoroughbreds. Approximately 80% of all forelimb proximal sesamoid fractures are biaxial (both the lateral and medial sesamoid bones are fractured). Racing…
We were granted another op-ed yesterday, this one in Youngstown’s Mahoning Matters. (The paper also ran a companion piece on recent deaths at Mahoning.) Before reading, a quick note: Typically, editors will edit submissions for a variety of reasons. It’s…
We had an op-ed published in the Albany Times Union this morning: “There’s no getting around it: Horse racing is immoral.” (While I have provided the text below, please click on the link to support the paper.) Recent stories, including…
One of my very first posts (2013)… Equine advocates often decry the racing of two-year-olds, and for good reason. But what many may not fully understand is that forcing two-year-olds onto the track is only marginally worse, medically speaking, than…
