The Sting that is so stinging to U.S. horse racing

Testing racehorses for "doping" or performance-enhancing drugs may be better described as a band aid, but not the cure.

NYT: More than 2 dozen charged in horse racing doping scheme

Among those charged was Jason Servis, the trainer of Maximum Security — By Benjamin Weiser and Joe Drape | March 9, 2020 Federal prosecutors announced charges on Monday against more than two dozen racehorse trainers, veterinarians and drug distributors in a wide-ranging series of indictments that laid out a corrupt scheme to secretly dope horses…

Roy Exum on Horse Soring: FBI to Study “Lickers”

Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan » About 25 years ago there was a terrifying movie called “The Silence of the Lambs.” It was so good it won the Academy Awards in all five categories – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. Further, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster were brilliant, but do…

FBI questions Christine Quinn, probes NY mayor’s flip flop on carriage horse ban

This is New York politics at its worst or best, depending on your view. In this instancce it is a case of who funded who in the New York City mayoral race and why, and what carriage horses have to do with it. Mayor de Blasio promised to ban carriage horses in the city if…

Request for Investigation Filed with FBI to Stop Calico Wild Horse Transport

Request for Investigation Filed with FBI to Stop Calico Wild Horse Transport The ‘Erin Brockovich of America’s Mustangs’ fights to return Nevada Wild Horses to Freedom Reno, NV (June 21, 2010)—Cindy MacDonald, research expert and American Herds blogger has filed a request for investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this afternoon to prevent…