NY Times publishes second article in US racing probe

The New York Times has published its minute in-depth article inward a serial looking at problems within the the US racing industry.

The minute report, entitled “Big purses, sore horses, together with death“, explores drug role inward racehorses, the risks posed to horses inward claiming races, together with the effects of casinos on the industry.

The latest study suggests large payouts to owners become far profitable for owners to champaign thoroughbreds that are past times their prime, sometimes amongst fatal results.

It follows the origin report, entitled “Mangled horses, maimed jockeys“, published on March 24.

It explored the circumstances but about the Equus caballus cost within the racing industry.

The study found that manufacture practices continued to pose animals together with riders at risk, together with was particularly critical of racing inward New Mexico.

It said a calculator analysis of information from to a greater extent than than 150,000 races, along amongst injury reports, drug examination results together with interviews, “showed an manufacture even together with thus mired inward a civilization of drugs together with lax rule together with a fatal breakdown charge per unit of measurement that remains far worse than inward most of the world”.

The  newspaper’s investigation was welcomed past times the animals rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta).

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) also weighed inward on the debate, amongst its president, Dr John Mitchell, talking of the telephone commutation obligation to render the best of attention together with oversight for horses.

“There should endure no higher priority for the racing community than the wellness together with security of its equine together with human athletes,” Mitchell said.

“Reducing equine injuries must endure the primary focus of all who attention for the Equus caballus – from racetrack administration together with regulators to the veterinarians together with horsemen who run daily inward the barns.

“The racing community has a telephone commutation obligation to render the best of attention together with oversight for our horses, together with in that place are efforts to fulfill this mission.”

Mitchell pointed to recent programs aimed at improving the attention of equine athletes, including the creation together with refinement of an injury database, certification of tracks through the Safety together with Integrity Alliance, the institution of aftercare programs for retired racehorses, together with query into equine wellness together with safety.

Peta, inward its official blog, said: “The findings of the newspaper’s lengthy investigation into thoroughbred together with quarter Equus caballus racing confirm what racing insiders convey been telling us almost their manufacture since Eight Belles died at the 2008 Kentucky Derby: Racing is a chemical-dependent manufacture inward which likewise many people shrug off the casualties together with plough their backs on the deaths of horses.”

The Times study said, on average, 24 horses died each calendar week at racetracks across America.

“Many are cheap horses racing amongst picayune regulatory protection inward pursuit of bigger together with bigger prizes,” it noted.

 

 

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