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…
One of our international partners, Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses New Zealand, has made the following video. It speaks for itself.
Up until very recently, knowledge and appreciation of the equine mind has been noticeably lacking. Sure, we’ve learned rudimentary things about horses through the years, but only enough to breed and maintain pliability. Now, though, scientific curiosity is leading some…
While it may be hard to believe, the North Carolina legislature is actually considering a bill – the “North Carolina Derby Act” – that would introduce Thoroughbred racing to that state. (There are steeplechases in NC; one, Charlotte, recently recorded…
Horseracing apologists are forever crying how unfair it is for us to characterize stall deaths as industry casualties. These deaths, they say, can and do happen to horses everywhere horses are kept. Well, leaving aside that racehorses are enslaved –…
Arizona: request filled Arkansas: request filled California: request filled Colorado: request filled Delaware: request filled Florida: request filled Illinois: request filled – but with large gaps Indiana: request filled Iowa: request filled Kentucky: request filled Louisiana: request filled – but…
Tonight at 7:00, Education Voters of PA will be hosting a webinar: “Lifting the curtain on cruelty and death in Pennsylvania’s horse racing industry.” I will be speaking and answering questions afterward. Education Voters is committed to ending the $240…
This is horseracing… Kentucky Downs, 2020 (Snake Doctor killed) Charles Town, 2020 (Princess Rashelle killed) Turfway, 2019 (Olly Wonder killed) Hong Kong, 2019 (Voyage King killed) Laurel, 2019 (Aikenetta killed) Charles Town, 2019 (Top Hat Darlin killed) Delta, 2019 (Doc’s…
“Death is delivered pink.” And so begins an ESPN The Magazine article (5/4/09) on the track veterinarian’s unenviable role as killer of the broken. Racing calls it euthanasia, of course, but that’s simply self-absolution. In any event, this is no…
Statements from Kitty Block, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the self-styled “nation’s most effective animal protection organization”: “[T]he racing industry [is] now enjoying the increased enthusiasm a new superstar [Justify] brings to the…
Follows is my state-by-state recap for 2019. Arkansas: request filled – but without stall deaths Iowa: request filled – but without stall deaths Colorado: request filled New York: information direct from Commission database Minnesota: request filled – but with names…
Go for Wand broke down in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Belmont Park; she was euthanized where she lay. Sports Illustrated’s William Nack penned a now-famous article entitled “Requiem at Belmont,” with the lede “ON A CALAMITOUS BREEDERS’ CUP…
