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THE RACING POST | ENGLAND | 14 SEPT 22 Fox Norton has a new career – not that you would know it seeing him relax among a herd of horses. In a sea of bays and fly rugs, to the untrained eye the Melling Chase winner is hard to spot. Yet Helen Yeadon has no difficulty… Continue reading One boy latched on to a horse as he said they both had nowhere else to go
We came across a Paulick Report article that has a “where are they now and what are they doing” list of Kentucky Derby winners. We chose five. Funny Cide (2003) When Funny Cide (Distorted Humor) won the 2003 Kentucky Derby, he was the first gelding to do so since Clyde Van Dusen (Man o' War)… Continue reading Five Kentucky Derby winners: Where are they now?
THE BLOODHORSE reports: With new equine medication rules expected to go into effect the evening of Aug. 25, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has been working to get the word out about the expected new policies. KHRC equine medical director Bruce Howard said he has reached out to Kentucky horsemen and vets, as well as… Continue reading Racing: New KY medication rules
Horse racing is continuing in many parts of the world despite the Coronavirus threat. However, more race venues are beginning to cease racing. While these track closures continue, there is great concern about what racehorse owners will do with horses who are not racing. It is a costly enterprise maintaining a racehorse, and no one… Continue reading Horse racing off and on
"No illegal medications or procedures were uncovered, mirroring an independent report of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which found no criminal wrongdoing". What? These people are (fill in the blank) unbelievable. Read on (if you have the stomach for it). The Paulick Report tell us: The California Horse Racing Board has issued its… Continue reading More fairy stories from Calif Horse Racing Board
https://twitter.com/BarodaStudIre/status/1224438390210228226?s=03 It is virtually impossible not to be very concerned for this precious little filly's future, especially viewing her sweet innocence which all purpose bred racehorses begin their lives with. Propagandists for the industry would say that without horse racing she would not have been born, and that racehorses love to race and live pampered… Continue reading Frolicking filly by Justify
Tori Bedford writing on May 20, 2019, for WGBH News in Boston reports: Suffolk Downs is retiring horse racing — at least on this historic track, which is slated to be turned into apartments and retail shops. Suffolk Downs has before faced shutdowns, changes in ownership, and a casino bid that ended in failure. [CEO… Continue reading After 84 Years, Suffolk Downs Says Goodbye To Live Horse Racing
BARBARO, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, answered the starting bell at the Preakness Stakes, moments before jockey Edgar Prado pulled him up with a broken hind leg. Eight months later, he would die of the complications from that injury. Nothing has changed since the death of Barbaro and the tragic Eight Belles. More horses are… Continue reading Remember Barbaro
This story is excerpted from "Why Are Good Young Racehorses Ending Up As Meat 7,000 Miles Away?" | DEADSPIN | Written by Ryan Goldberg | May 2, 2019 APRIL 17, 2017, a sunny morning in Ocala, Florida, marked the start of the largest sale of two-year-old thoroughbreds in the country. Ace King, a bay colt… Continue reading The slaughter of Ace King
Correction 1.25 pm: 7 deaths not 17. Hope this error does not turn out to some sort of dark omen. SARATOGA, New York — Patrick Battuello of Horseracingwrongs.com reports: In the final race of the afternoon yesterday at Saratoga, this for 4-year-old Brooklyn Major (Equibase): "BROOKLYN MAJOR three wide at the half mile pole, was… Continue reading 7 racehorses killed so far at Saratoga in 2017
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