Joe Drape Editorial: Run to Death at Racetracks

More Disclosure Ahead of the Travers Stakes by JOE DRAPE Selected excerpts cross-posted from New York Times editorial Handicappers and bettors have had an unexpected new factor to work into their predictions for the elite Travers Stakes Saturday at the racetrack in Saratoga Springs: the disclosure, on the Web, of each medication dose given to…

Horses entered for the Travers Stakes face heightened scrutiny

Joe Drape writing for the New York Times reports: "New York authorities have ordered that all horses racing in the Travers Stakes on Aug. 25 be placed under 24-hour surveillance, and their trainers will have to document each medical treatment a horse receives in the 72 hours before the race." and "For the Belmont Stakes…