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POWERNATION TV writes: While horse racing is obviously nothing new, racing them down a highway isn’t usually where you find them. But if you’re on the east coast of the Sunshine State, where horse racing is especially popular at casinos, you may see owners training or racing their horses on the roads. As you can imagine this draws… Continue reading Drag racing horses in Florida
HorseRaceInsider.com reports: KEN WEINGARTNER — The United States Trotting Association announced Friday (April 10) that it has endorsed the passage of the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act of 2019 (H. R. 961), which states that “the knowing sale or transport of equines or equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for purposes of human… Continue reading USTA endorses SAFE Act
Updated 4:30 PM EDT. Horse racing in the United States is so corrupt and so cruel to the horses they breed, drug, injure and kill — not including the ones they dump in the slaughter pipline — it is beyond any reasonable explanation why it is still legally able to operate. Except for the little excitement… Continue reading Harness trainer Pena banned 3 years, fined $343,400 for 1,717 equine drug violations
There is no mention how the cancellation of the Slots at Racetrack program, which is to end March 2013, will impact the lives of the horses utilized by the Standardbred and Thoroughbred racing industry. However, talk of breeders euthanizing foals, and owners considering sending a number of their horses to slaughter, is already being reported.… Continue reading Ontario Finance Minister’s comments over funding cuts anger horse-racing executive
From QMI via SimcoReformer.ca The decision to end provincial funding for Ontario's harness racing may kill more than the industry - it's resulting in the death of an unknown number of this year's crop of new foals. QMI Agency spoke to a number of sources who say breeders are now are euthanizing their foals moments… Continue reading Foals euthanized in Canada as provincial funding of harness racing ends
Guest Post by CYNTHIA D'ERRICO Author of "Ground Manners. A Novel." “From what I see here, the regulations on those bloody machines are curbing revenues—and turning Blue Bonnets into a huge tavern . . . with state-controlled gambling . . . It could bring the industry to its knees. . . Where’s the cash going?...Follow… Continue reading Follow the cash, follow the blood: horse racing in Canada
Book Review By ERIC BANKS May 17, 2008; Page W9; WSJ "Crazy Good" By Charles Leerhsen Simon & Schuster, 355 pages, $26 FOLLOWING THE BREAKDOWN of the brilliant filly Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and her on-track euthanizing, the blame -- and complaints about horseracing in general -- spread in many… Continue reading Dan Patch: Crazy Good (Book Review)
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