Racing body takes issue with NY Times analysis
The New York Racing Association has taken number alongside the analysis of Equus caballus injuries presented inwards a lengthy New York Times written report investigating the racing industry.
The investigation into American Equus caballus racing cast the manufacture inwards an unflattering light, specially in addition to so inwards New Mexico.
Entitled “Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys”, it explored the circumstances to a greater extent than or less the Equus caballus cost inside the racing industry, in addition to concluded that manufacture practices continued to seat animals in addition to riders at risk.
It said a reckoner analysis of information from to a greater extent than than 150,000 races, along alongside injury reports, drug seek out results in addition to interviews, “showed an manufacture notwithstanding mired inwards a civilization of drugs in addition to lax rule in addition to a fatal breakdown charge per unit of measurement that remains far worse than inwards almost of the world”.
However, the New York Racing Association challenged the analysis of Equus caballus injuries seat forth inwards the March 25 front end page article.
The association said The Times developed a metric for the article referred to every bit an “incident rate” which it argued was incorrect. It argued that that the methodology behind it was faulty, in addition to may receive got led to misleading results.
The Times’ enquiry method was explained inwards a sidebar entitled “How the Times Analyzed Data on Horse Injuries”, published online at nytimes.com. The article stated that: “To assess how oftentimes horses interruption downward or instruct injured, The Times purchased official information roofing to a greater extent than than 150,000 race results from 2009 through 2011. The information are compiled past times trained ‘chart callers’, in addition to used to compile results charts that bettors utilisation to evaluate horses. The Times searched the information for price indicating that a Equus caballus encountered a physical problem: broke down, vanned off, injured, lame, euthanized, died, collapsed, bleeding, or went wrong.”
The association asserted that it was unreliable in addition to potentially deceptive for the Times to rely on nautical chart callers’ descriptions of the running of a race to guess how oftentimes horses instruct injured.
“Chart callers are trained to trace the agency inwards which a race is run, non to ‘assess how oftentimes horses interruption downward or instruct injured’,” the association said.
“Chart callers create non follow upward alongside trainers or veterinarians to create upward one's hear whether or non a Equus caballus has suffered an injury during a race.
“Horses may hold upward vanned off for many reasons that receive got cipher to create alongside an injury.
“For example, a jockey may clitoris upward a Equus caballus if he or she believes the Equus caballus has taken a bad step. In cases similar this, the Equus caballus is oftentimes vanned off every bit a precaution. This is a mutual scenario in addition to oftentimes the Equus caballus is non flora to receive got whatsoever physical problems.
“For example, during Race iv at Saratoga Race Course on August 25, 2010, the nautical chart caller comment for Santo Gato reads, ‘pulled up, vanned off’. This would thence hold upward included inwards the Times written report every bit an ‘incident’.
“Following trainer in addition to veterinary examinations, cipher was flora to hold upward wrong alongside Santo Gato. He ran sixteen days later on at Presque Isle Downs on September 10, 2010 in addition to has run xix times since, posting 3 victories.”
The association said its analysis reveals that, of the horses that were vanned off at Saratoga Race Course from 2009 through 2011, xix came dorsum to race, making a total of 149 starts through the destination of March 2012.
“The Thoroughbred Times, inwards an article posted online Wednesday, Apr 4, reported that past times subtracting these horses that returned to the races, the New York Times incident charge per unit of measurement at Saratoga Race Course drops from 5.5 to 3.23.”
The association argued in that place was “plausible cause” to regard the New York Times’ incident charge per unit of measurement metric every bit faulty in addition to to catch that its purported goal of assessing “how oftentimes horses interruption downward or instruct injured” leads to misleading in addition to wrong results.
It noted that The Jockey Club released its updated North American fatality charge per unit of measurement for thoroughbreds on March 22, based on 3 years of information collected inwards the Equine Injury Database, the North American database for racing injuries.
For the racing manufacture every bit a whole, the prevalence of fatal injury per K starts was 1.98 for 2009, 1.88 for 2010 in addition to 1.88 for 2011.
At Saratoga, the prevalence of fatal injury per K starts was 0.98 for 2009, 1.52 for 2010, in addition to 0.93 for 2011, amidst the lowest rates of whatsoever racetrack inwards North America.
“This consistent security tape contributes to Saratoga Race Course’s condition every bit 1 of the best thoroughbred meets inwards the country, drawing the best horses, jockeys, trainers, owners, in addition to fans,” the association said.
The Times’ March 25 slice was the kickoff purpose inwards a serial exploring issues to a greater extent than or less racing. New York media receive got suggested the side past times side Times piece, expected today, volition looking at New York racing.
Earlier report: NY Times written report probes the U.S.A. racing casualties
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