KEK. Whomever this guy is he must be a bad motherfucker.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/06/18/its-time-to-take-a-hard-look-at-horse-racing-and-opportunities-for-reform/
Sauce for anon's tweet. Not sure there is a connection to POTUS but I'll leave that for you all to work out on your own.
There’s no question that horse racing is a spectacle. There are few moments as breathtaking as 20 1,000-pound thoroughbreds surging through the homestretch of Churchill Downs at nearly 40 miles an hour But at what cost? Each year, hundreds of horses die while racing and training. This is the only sport in our country where we accept – even expect – athletes to die in competition. According to the Jockey Club the number of horse deaths is trending downward, but the group still reported 493 dead racehorses in 2018. The number is likely higher as not all tracks report.
Attention lately has been focused on Santa Anita Park in Los Angeles County where 29 horses died this racing season, which started December 26 and concludes this weekend. But this doesn’t even rate as a particularly bad year for that track.
Last season, 44 horses died there; during the two seasons before that, 64 and 62 died respectively. So in just four seasons of racing, at just this one track, 199 horses have died. How can that number be acceptable to any of us? How many horses have to die before we decide it’s too many?
In my opinion, the public isn’t aware of the terrible toll on horses, and until those numbers are understood, we’ll continue to see more deaths. The only solution is to take a close look at racing across the country. And as the California horse racing circuit moves this month from Santa Anita to Los Alamitos and then to Del Mar, both tracks should receive the same level of scrutiny that Santa Anita has come under.
Something is wrong and it needs to be addressed. According to the Jockey Club, the United States sees between 2.5 and 5 times as many racehorses die compared to other racing countries. That means they’re doing something right and we’re doing something very wrong.
One clear area of difference is the use of medication. Unlike other countries, the United States has no national standard regarding the use of medications on horses. With horses entered to run more races more frequently, medication becomes an important tool to keep horses able to compete.
Legal drugs are frequently used to counteract pain or to make horses run faster. It has to be considered whether these medications lead to longer-term health issues and whether the cumulative stress from the overtraining that these medications allow leads to increased injury and death.
… edited b/c too long. Read the rest at the link but you must turn off incognito or you hit the pay wall.