Comments on: Mysterious horse death solved… 75 years later http://njoythistrip.com/2008/06/20/mysterious-horse-death-solved-75-years-later/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:15:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: johnny b http://njoythistrip.com/2008/06/20/mysterious-horse-death-solved-75-years-later/#comment-68 johnny b Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:29:23 +0000 http://njoythistrip.com/2008/06/20/mysterious-horse-death-solved-75-years-later/#comment-68 The toll continues: Yesterday at Churchill Downs 2 horses were destroyed after suffering injuries on the dirt track. The AP reports "that thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. reported more than three horse deaths a day last year and 5,000 since 2003, and the vast majority were put down after suffering devastating injuries on the track." Source: Yahoo News http://snipurl.com/2mxd9 The toll continues:
Yesterday at Churchill Downs 2 horses were destroyed after suffering injuries on the dirt track.

The AP reports “that thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. reported more than three horse deaths a day last year and 5,000 since 2003, and the vast majority were put down after suffering devastating injuries on the track.”

Source: Yahoo News http://snipurl.com/2mxd9

]]> By: johnny b http://njoythistrip.com/2008/06/20/mysterious-horse-death-solved-75-years-later/#comment-67 johnny b Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:26:06 +0000 http://njoythistrip.com/2008/06/20/mysterious-horse-death-solved-75-years-later/#comment-67 As long as humans have raced horses they have always looked for some sort of unfair advantage to win. The effects on the animal were ignored as long as it made the horse run faster and longer.Doping continues today but the techniques are subtler and sometimes undetectable but the continuing injuries and deaths of horses on the race courses is obvious. "Many blame danger of dirt tracks. California had ordered softer synthetic surfaces for every track because 154 horses had to be euthanized in the 2004-05 racing season. So many horses died on the Del Mar track that trainers called it a “killing field." "Essentially the only difference between horse racing and dog fighting is that the exploitation of horses by white people for profit is acceptable and the exploitation of dogs by black people for profit is unacceptable. Both are dirty, corrupt, and unrepentant sports that kill its athletes on a fairly regular basis." Source: http://snipurl.com/2mdlx As long as humans have raced horses they have always looked for some sort of unfair advantage to win. The effects on the animal were ignored as long as it made the horse run faster and longer.Doping continues today but the techniques are subtler and sometimes undetectable but the continuing injuries and deaths of horses on the race courses is obvious.

“Many blame danger of dirt tracks. California had ordered softer synthetic surfaces for every track because 154 horses had to be euthanized in the 2004-05 racing season. So many horses died on the Del Mar track that trainers called it a “killing field.”

“Essentially the only difference between horse racing and dog fighting is that the exploitation of horses by white people for profit is acceptable and the exploitation of dogs by black people for profit is unacceptable. Both are dirty, corrupt, and unrepentant sports that kill its athletes on a fairly regular basis.”

Source: http://snipurl.com/2mdlx

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