by Patrick Battuello as published on Horseracing Wrongs
Through a FOIA request to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, I have confirmed the following deaths on that state’s tracks in 2018. The Commission, however, redacted identifying information on the basis of confidentiality (though in some cases I was able to independently identify). More significantly, they forwarded but one death at the state’s three harness tracks. In other words, the actual toll is surely more than what follows – and what follows is 72 dead racehorses…
Click (HERE) to read the report!
Categories: Horse Health, Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Uncategorized
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
It is all about the money as usual. Please do not bet on or attend the Kentucky Derby. If you do you are encouraging animal abuse.
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Perhaps unrelated, but if you look closely at the photo of the broken pelvis provided, it is not and was not symmetrical before the break, and a break or fracture as shown probably happened in a fall. I The provided information doesn’t show the horse’s age, but t is likely that horse’s structure was impaired from birth and failed under pressure. This failure is likely related a malformation related to inbreeding.
If I was breeding racehorses I would never mate this horse’s parents again!
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Well, after looking around it seems this “photo” is just clip art on a form used by veterinarians, so it isn’t the pelvis of the horse it describes.
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Meanwhile…”back at the ranch”..there needs to be a change of command
THE JOURNAL
Mesa Verde denies access to horse roundup
Access to federal government actions is a First Amendment right, court says
By Jim Mimiaga Journal Staff Writer
Monday, April 29, 2019
Park Superintendent Cliff Spencer banned media coverage of the roundup in an email April 24
“If a government agency restricts public access, the media’s only recourse is the court system,” the appeals court said. “The free press is the guardian of the public interest, and the independent judiciary is the guardian of the free press. Thus, courts have a duty to conduct a thorough and searching review of any attempt to restrict public access.”
https://the-journal.com/articles/136712
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL APPOINTMENT
Posted on Apr 17, 2019
On April 15, 2019, the NPS installed David Vela as its “Acting” Deputy Director of Operations. This happened through the April 12 appointment made by another NPS Deputy Director, P. Daniel Smith.
A January 29, 2019, Order, “Temporary Redelegation of Authority” from then Acting Secretary of the Interior DAVID BERNHARDT, allows lesser political appointees such as Mr. Smith to occupy higher jobs, but Section 4 of that Order specifically delegates “only those functions or duties that are not required by statute or regulation to be performed only by the Senate-confirmed official occupying the position.”
https://www.peer.org/news/press-releases/national-park-service-accused-of-illegal-appointment.html
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