(Note: I like to re-post this every couple of years as a reminder.) 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 to dig…

Yesterday, I reported that a third horse has been confirmed killed racing at Parx Tuesday. Having been doing this a long time, I can’t recall ever reporting more than two racing kills at one track on the same day. (It’s possible it’s happened before, but, alas, I’d have to go through 13 years and 13,000…

As we previously reported, two horses – Keeping It Country and Awesome Cause – were killed racing at Parx Tuesday. In that post, I noted that in KIC’s race, First Money was an “injured/vanned off” – wording that more often than not translates to dead. And indeed he is. So, that makes it three horses…

The big issue (beyond the horses’ well-being, of course) in the NY slaughter-truck case is the lack of charges against Bruce Rotz (and/or his company, Rotz Livestock). After all, these were his horses; he is the killer-buyer who was sending them to what would have been their bloody, gruesome ends at a Canadian abattoir. Alas,…