Posted on 06/04/2023 12:13:15 PM PDT by Drastic
Horse racing at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, is suspended following the death of 12 horses at the track. Spring and summer races will be rescheduled to take place at Ellis Park. However, practice at Churchill Downs is still permitted for now.
A report on Horse Racing Nation stated the following about the tragic situation:
“Even though the investigations and expert reports have indicated no surface issues, in an abundance of caution, and in alignment with a recommendation from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Churchill Downs Inc. has elected to relocate the meet in order to conduct a top-to-bottom review of all safety and surface protocols and integrity measures in collaboration and consultation with nationwide experts,” the statement said. A Churchill Downs spokesperson told Horse Racing Nation that training will be allowed to continue at the track after racing is suspended."
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Ruffian is the reason I never got into horse racing.
when it goes right, it can be the most exciting, majestic sport...but when it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong.
that match race was on National Television...was hyped for weeks...racing never fully recovered from that...just awful.
I like those thick legged quarter horses. Not a fan of skinny leg thorough breds.
Ruffian is not the reason horse-racing declined.
It was natural. By the ‘70s (and a lot of changes happened in the ‘60s which led to further downfall) people no longer had much connection to horses. And it got worse. When horses were the basic mode of transport, it was huge, both gallop and harness. The retention of interest was most likely because people still remembered the horses on the street and perhaps their own parents or grandparents’ horse.
But eventually horses became at best a 3rd-generation removed and no experience with them.
That is the downfall of horse-racing. Not needing them anymore.
Indeed.
“Even though the investigations and expert reports have indicated no surface issues
Then, what IS the cause of now TWELVE horses dying?
Feed? $hots??
But QH only made to sprint 1/4 mile. That’s not very tough. ;-). TBs made for longer, and they created much of the QB anyway.
At the rate things are going, horses might make a comeback.
Some of those horses I recall being heart attacks. Those should not count at all.
Definitely it was so here at Laurel.
Of course, some blame the horses themselves…breeding for weakness.
I however don’t fully buy that, seeing as American horses are heavy in the genetics of much-vaunted European racers, and often were the top Euro horses themselves.
I think it’s more lack of conditioning, treating them like babies and reducing schedules, then when they do - pop. The soft leftist PETA mindset of don’t make the animal do anything leads to more easy injury, I think. Compare horses 100 years ago to today…look at the schedules. Weak compared to back then.
Indeed. Remember one of those silly apocalypse movies? People trying to get a horse.
Isn’t that how the father of Sen. John Edward’s baby momma made his money? I think Druck was his name.
Ban horses so they won’t die.
I haven’t watched a race since Barbaro went down at the Kentucky Derby. His owners did all they could to save his life, but best vets couldn’t get that leg to heal.
Just re-connected with old high school friend who now lives in Louisville. He emailed me to be sure to watch this year. I did watch the run, exciting. But I understand that several horses died in training.
The two men who owned the company I worked for, put their unsuccessful race horses “out to pasture”. And then an investigation was done, revealing that those poor horses died “suddenly,” by electrocution. Vicious “sport”.
Were the jockeys vaxxed?
Ellen Parker, who was probably the expert on thoroughbred genetics and breeding lines, had her research featured in this ESPN piece from 2008.
https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/triplecrown08/columns/story?columnist=nack_bill&id=3399004
Essentially, horses were being bred for speed at the expense of weakness in legs. There are people who do not agree with her:
https://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20630&start=15
There clearly has been horses run will banned substances previously (e.g. bute, dex, etc), and there has been research regarding horses running with bute:
https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&catId=102906&id=10307798
Which horses are you talking about that were electrocuted? Your boss's or those at the track?
The idiot bosses.
THAT is a horifically bad headline because it gives the reader to think that all 12 had all died just now, all of the sudden.
In truth it's 12 since the stables opened at the end of March. Most were euthanized because of untreatable injury and a couple (from the same stable) collapsed and died during training.
Which no doubt is outside the statistical norms but, as usual, the hullabaloo is being driven by PETA and other animal rights wackadoodles.
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