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By SALLY JENKINS as published on The Washington Post “This isn’t sport; it’s a fancied-up vice…” If there’s a moral to the 145th Kentucky Derby, it’s that you can’t take the gambling out of gambling. But try telling that to horse people, those incurable lottery addicts. The stewards […]
By Lia Eustachewich and Jennifer Gould Keil as published on The New York Post “Twenty-three thoroughbreds have died since Dec. 26 at Santa Anita Park, the California track that’s considered one of the best in the nation…” Saturday marks the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill […]
by Ryan Goldberg as published on Deadspin.com “Ace King was the first of eight horses that day to be prodded down a narrow concrete-and-metal chute to his death. A bolt was fired into his brain before he was hoisted up and his throat was cut…” Two years in […]
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 […]
By Stephen Whyno as published on NBCMiami.com Sometimes the track itself is a risk, which was believed to be a cause of 19 horse fatalities at Saratoga Race Course in 2017 and played a role at Santa Anita Linda Gaudet can’t watch the replays. Even after 47 years in […]
“My wife and our resident photographer, Terry, may get miffed but I am going to start leaking out a few pics of our global quest to follow and document wild horse migrations and activities on other continents. Her fear is that it may be pretentious but our hearts […]
Source: The Dodo “Ya gotta love this little guy…AND the kind folks who rescued him!” ~ R.T. For more on Tiny Tim click (HERE)
By Jason Henry as published on Daily News Nearly all of the horses that died at Santa Anita last year were on medication, records show… Half of the three dozen horses that died at Santa Anita Park in the 12 months prior to the current meet were on […]
Source: PR from the Center for Biological Diversity “New border-wall construction will decimate the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas…” WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release public records on President Trump’s plans to […]
Story by Damon Arthur, of the Redding Record Searchlight “The wild horse race is absolutely bent on the terrorizing of the horses…” A horse was killed during the Wild Horse Race at the Red Bluff Round-Up rodeo on Saturday, drawing outrage from animal rights activists. The horse, a […]
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