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Pro-Racing Equine Scientist on Tongue Ties: "The welfare cost is well documented."
This week, Dr. David Marlin, a leading equine scientist, published an article on tongue ties: “Lack of Evidence for Tongue Ties – Time to BAN!”. Here are some of the more relevant passages. While reading, please bear in mind that Dr. Marlin is not philosophically against horseracing. “Tongue Ties…must cause significant discomfort and pain, yet…
Vile: 12-Year-Old Limps to "Winner's Circle," Lame
At the International Gold Cup in Virginia last Saturday, Noah And The Ark, said the chart, “prevailed under vigorous hand urging,” walking away with $30K for his exploiters. Well, not really walking away, more like limping away. A reader sent me the following videos of the aftermath of that race. You’ll see that Noah was…
12-Year-Old Killed in 321st Race
The Gaming Commission says that Sullivan broke down and was euthanized in the 1st at Monticello Oct 15. This poor boy was 12, and over the course of 10 years had been put to the whip an unconscionable 321 times. Please allow that to sink in. Imagine how the inside of his body looked -…
2-Year-Old Killed on Eureka's 4th Day; Death at Finger Lakes; A Slew of Injured/Sick at Keeneland
I have confirmed that Dynastys Third Sign, an “injured, DNF” in the 9th at Eureka Sunday, is indeed dead. This poor girl was just two. The complicit: Thomas Scheckel, Fernando Ivan Manriquez, Edwin Escobedo. Eureka, as I relayed (with, I might add, a prescient title), has just returned after a 16-year hiatus, and this was…
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