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*Warning: Graphic image of a horse's fracture. The quoted part below is the entire article, so you can avoid the image by not clicking the link to read further. I just included it to show the source.
Another fracture/death. This time at Los Alamitos:
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Saddle Club was “vanned off” after “placing” (and “winning” $2500 for her people) in the 4th at Los Alamitos December 28. In fact, I have confirmed (CHRB), she is dead (fracture). Saddle Club was six years old and under the whip for the 18th time.
Horseracing is inherently cruel and inevitably deadly. Horseracing cannot be fixed or “reformed.” Horseracing must end.
Two more recent deaths (again, this is the full content of the article. Don't click on the link if you don't want to see graphic imagery on an injury)(my bolding below):
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The California Horse Racing Board has disclosed the following kills:
Katies Easy Moves at Los Alamitos Sunday. Katies was “injured and vanned off” after finishing 4th (and “winning” $600 for his people) in the 6th race, and subsequently euthanized. He was six years old and under the whip for the 38th time.
Super Beauty at Golden Gate Saturday. The Board says “gastrointestinal,” but curiously the 2-year-old filly was, according to Equibase, “worked out” that day.
As California Racing continues to tell the world how they are leading the way on safety reforms, the bodies continue to pile up. Thus far, 2020:
Ruby Roundhouse, Jan 1, Los Alamitos S – “gastrointestinal”
Golden Birthday, Jan 1, Santa Anita R – “took a bad step” (broken leg)
Elegant Sundown, Jan 5, Golden Gate R – “catastrophic injury…euthanized in the van”
Jest Famous, Jan 7, Los Alamitos S – “gastrointestinal”
Buckstopper Kit, Jan 7, Santa Anita S
Eyell Be Back, Jan 10, Los Alamitos R (euthanized Jan 12) – “carpus”
Harliss, Jan 17, Santa Anita R – “fractured RF ankle”
Super Beauty, Jan 18, Golden Gate T – “gastrointestinal”
Uncontainable, Jan 18, Santa Anita R – “fractured ankle”
Katies Easy Moves, Jan 19, Los Alamitos R – “fetlock”
Tikkun Olam, Jan 19, Santa Anita T – “head-on collision”
Again, I'm just trying to shine light on this and keep it in the forefront. Hopefully more and more people will rethink horseracing as entertainment.
Last edited by SeaOfGrass; 01-28-2020 at 02:43 PM..
27 charged in expansive horse-doping scheme. There is some bleeped-out language in some of the indictments' quoted comments, and those comments are ugly:
Make No Mistake: Jorge Navarro and Jason Servis Are Horseracing
March 10, 2020
Ignore everything you read and hear from the apologists. This is bad. Very bad. For an industry that has been under relentless siege for over a year now, the federal indictments that came down yesterday against some 27 people in, or associated with, American horseracing – including seven veterinarians (who merit an especial contempt) and renowned trainers Jason Servis (he of short-lived Derby winner Maximum Security) and Jorge Navarro (killer of X Y Jet) – couldn’t have come at a worse time. But it’s important not to get too far into the weeds on this.
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Anyway, here are some of the indictments’ “highlights.”
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“On or about October 2, 2019, [veterinarian Louis] Grasso counseled [trainer Thomas] Guido on the proper administration of misbranded and adulterated PEDs, and specifically discussed the death of a horse that Guido was training and stated had been doped with a PED…noting, ‘it happens,’ that the deceased horse’s trainer had ‘probably over juiced him,’ and that the suspected cause of the horse’s death was not unusual: ‘I’ve seen that happen 20 times.’”
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“On a February 1, 2019, intercepted call between [trainer Nicholas] Surick and [collaborator] Michael Tannuzzo discussing [trainer Jorge] Navarro, Surick stated: ‘You know how many ****ing horses he ****ing killed and broke down that I made disappear. … You know how much trouble he could get in…if they found out?’”
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“On or about May 29, 2019, Navarro held a conference call with the operators of a racing stable in California, for whom Navarro is a trainer, during which they discussed a series of poor performances by “Nanoosh,” a racehorse trained by Navarro. During the call, one of the operators questioned whether Navarro was ‘giving them all the ****,’ later asking, ‘Is this horse jacked out? Is he on ****ing pills or what or are we just ****ing -,’ to which Navarro responded, ‘Everything…he gets everything.’”
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“[D]uring an intercepted call between Navarro and Tannuzzo, Navarro explained, in part, that he otherwise would have been caught doping: ‘[The racing official] would’ve caught our asses ****ing pumping and pumping and fuming every ****ing horse [that] runs today.’“
Ugh. There are more quotes, but, as shown, I was just highlighting some of them.
Could Be Historic: Corporate Welfare for Pennsylvania’s Cruel, Deadly Horseracing Industry in Jeopardy
February 5, 2020
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf unveiled a budget that would divert some $200 million in horseracing subsidies to education: “I’m proposing a historic $200 million investment in scholarships for the young Pennsylvanians attending our state system universities. And we’ll do that by repurposing existing tax dollars that are right now flowing into the Horse Racing Development Fund. Let’s bet on our kids instead of bankrolling race horse owners.”
The California Horse Racing Board has confirmed the following training kill at Golden Gate yesterday: A Lonna At the Top, “sudden death.” She was but three years old, still a pubescent – “sudden death.” 20 horses have now died at California racetracks in 2020. Is there any rational person out there who still thinks reform is a viable option?
And nobody is doing anything at all about all of this...
Its sickening
I used to like going to the track ages ago, now I could never enjoy it. I stopped being able to after I learned the fate of the horses that stop winning, or never start winning.
Even With Hardly Any Racing, They’re Still Killing: 4 Dead in 6 Days – 3 in California
April 6, 2020
With U.S. Racing barely operational, they still can’t help but kill:
Yesterday, in the 6th at Tampa Bay (Florida, unsurprisingly, is one of the handful of holdout states), Tizaprincessa was, says Equibase, “vanned off the course” – “vanned off,” I can confirm, to her death. She was five. Saturday, Enchanting Eva, also five, broke and died while training at Golden Gate. Last Thursday, it was Royal Callan Rocks, training at Los Alamitos. He was two. Same track, two days prior, The Cullinan Dream perished from “other” (the CHRB didn’t specify) causes. He, too, was but two.
It’s hard to understand how anyone could enjoy a horse race, knowing the fate of so many of them. These beautiful animals are treated like disposable trash. The money stream and politics will keep this sport around, but if enough people put pressure on states that have racing, things could change in favor of the horses. The main thing is, don’t go to the track. If the money dries up, this sport will be gone.
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