Ruffian is the reason I never got into horse racing.
I like those thick legged quarter horses. Not a fan of skinny leg thorough breds.
“Even though the investigations and expert reports have indicated no surface issues
Then, what IS the cause of now TWELVE horses dying?
Feed? $hots??
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.
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
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.
Did the horses get Covid-19 vaccines?
Rich snobs don’t care about killing animals
Seems pretty obvious
“Horses are a lot alike,” but when functioning approaches peak performance, they are significantly different.
Their diet, the exercise they need, the rest they need, the company some may need, the weather. For some, character changes.
There are individual limits of endurance and resilience that are not in agreement with the imaginations and temperments of some owners and managers.
There are injuries that are not externally detected and require more time to heal, but the time range is beyond the racing, scheduled.
Where is Dick Francis when you need him?
Insurance? very old stray thought for Freepers who might remember... Rielle Hunter whom prez/vp candidate back when knocked up and then “residenced” her in the Governor’s Club golf community in Raleigh, NC until discovered there by the Enquirer).... well Rielle’s father was convicted of killing racehorses for hire by owners who wanted to cash out of losers or just cash out. A disgusting, and true story- FL Freepers might remember from back then that one of the horses he killed in a parking lot of a movie theater in a horse trailer. He used... high voltage electrical probe in the poor beast’s rear and the other contact surface skin nearby— heart attack. Rielle’s issue with her dad was he killed her own favorite quarter horse somewhere in her past. A real nasty dude iirecall correctly.
Sorry- but so many horses in one location- a prestigious and expensive one? This needs full investigation certainly.
During the period when the 12 horses died, how many cows were consumed in the track’s restaurants?
12 doesn’t seem to be a comparatively significant number.
Were they giving the China Virus vaxxes to horses too?
But after watching the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro go down in the following Preakness, that was it, I haven't been able to to watch any horse race after that......
I'm not naive enough to want to see an end to horse racing but Jesus, these recent deaths of thoroughbreds is just heart breaking......
What condition did the animals die from? A hoof-related situation?
The Kentucky Derby is the vehicle for mint-julips.
COVID vaxxes?
But in other news, the dog food plant is booming.