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Before you hit the play button be warned there is a lot of swearing, particularly the F bomb. The content is shocking, then it is not. Hearing about it is one thing. Seeing it is quite another. In the meantime, backstretch workers have been portrayed since the coronavirus crisis as a bunch of great guys… Continue reading Racehorse reality: Video
by JANE ALLIN Part 2 of 3 WE THREE KINGS OF RACE CHEATING ARE Baffert, Pletcher and Asmussen may not always be the top three trainers on the list when it comes to racehorse doping violations but they seem to very near the top if not always on the top. Notwithstanding that, the names of… Continue reading Despite a Triple Crown all that glitters is not gold in American horse racing (Part 2)
Kentucky horse racing and horse racing in general in the U.S. should hang their heads in shame. But of course they will not. They are too callous and self-righteous. U.S. horse racing have demonstrated once again they care absolutely nothing about the safety and welfare of the racehorses they use. Asmussen is just the tip… Continue reading Kentucky horse racing regulators clear trainer Steve Asmussen of abuse allegations
I am not shocked. I am not the least little bit surprised. This is horse racing American style and it stinks to high heaven. You take your big carcasses of cheating and horse cruelty and sweep them under the proverbial rug. Abusing drugs and cheating. That seems to be a common thread in too many… Continue reading KHRC finds no smoking gun in Peta undercover sting of racehorse trainer Asmussen
Cross-posted from the New York Times WRITTEN BY JOE DRAPE LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Early Saturday night, the horses for the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby will saunter onto the racetrack as a capacity crowd at Churchill Downs serenades them with a full-throated “My Old Kentucky Home.” It promises to be a stirring tableau of… Continue reading Scandal casts shadow over grandeur of Kentucky Derby
Cross-posted from The Atlantic BY ANDREW COHEN There are essentially three types of people in horse racing. There are the crooks who dangerously drug or otherwise abuse their horses, or who countenance such conduct from their agents, and who then dare the industry to come catch them. Then there are the dupes who labor under… Continue reading Cohen: The ugly truth about horse racing
The word over the weekend concerning Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Steve Asmussen is he has sacked his assistant Scott Blasi. Blasi is the inconvenient star of the Peta undercover investigation that leaves he and and Asmussen accused of horse cruelty, among other things. "Among other things" appears to be on most people's minds however. Our concern… Continue reading Accused horse trainer Asmussen sacks assistant Blasi; industry responds
Thoroughbred trainers Steve Asmussen and Scott Blasi have been accused of cruelty to racehorses following an undercover investigation conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). No surprise there. I believe that more investigations of this type would unearth equally sinister horrors committed by American Thoroughbred horse trainers and their staff. The shocking… Continue reading Asmussen, the torture of racehorses and agonizing death of Nehro
Researched and Written by JANE ALLIN Unlike some other organized sports in America, such as baseball, football and basketball, horse racing differs in several ways. Not only does it lack centralization in the form of a governing body to oversee regulatory policies and mandates, but it also does not provide its players with contractual salaries.… Continue reading A lust to win, an incentive to cheat: The stain on American Thoroughbred racing
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