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It's a shame these beautiful animals are not cared for in a better way. Our house pets have better care then the horses. This is all about money. The horse is seen only as money, not as a animal that deserves our care. Shame on all those who are responsible. Wish you would get the same care you didnt give them when your dependent on people someday for your care.

​@@jewelleryaddict Apparently you have never spent any time on the backstretch caring for these horses or observing the people who care for them. It would not occur to me to comment on something I had not experienced firsthand.

We do own 2 horses with our neighbor where we live the past 15 years. Our horses get the best medical care we can afford. They are not mistreated. My husband was a out rider when he was young and followed the tracks before I met him. I am a veteran and was stationed where I met him. My husband is the main horse person and I am learning. I prefer riding my motorcycle. I do love the horses beautiful animals. We are both animal people and have owned/ raised many animals thru our long lives together. So you are wrong. you should not judge people you don't really know.

steroids are used for many things , even for humans , including flus, skin conditions and inflamation and in your feelings the horse must have no such relief?

I have. I have been in the stables, paddock and on the backstretch of many racetracks and saw all of this going on. If your going to say it doesn't then your either blind or lying. Drugs,abuse,etc etc etc...come on!​@tessdurberville711

Agree with you 100%!

Money is the key reason why many expensive two year old race horses start their racing careers at two years old. Many horses owners are impatient!

They have been runnng at 2 for over 150 years . Stop, the problem is we breed them for speed due to the money

It's in every level of horse racing. I've seen it first hand growing up at the tracks. It's absolutely terrible!!! Everything in this story is 100% correct.

Maybe sometimes, more often though it's the trainer who is cheating, without the owner knowing. Ban cheating trainer's like Bob Baffert for life, put Todd Pletcher on warning, one more charge, your out.

​@@Johnny53kgb-nsai own horses...its the trainers AND the vets, and those cutting edge drug labs in san francisco...

Trainers have to win or owner sends horse to another trainer. Uninformed owners might not know (or choose to remain ignorant)

Toddler Racing🤔. What an adorable idea!

Your comment is excellent. I agree completely! ❤🐎

Thank you!

The owners today are not the same breed that we had in the sport at any time before 1990. So much has changed. I retired all of my horses and stopped breeding in 2020, due to Covid-19. I was not going to keep horses stabled on the track and not even be able to visit them. I brought them home.

Well said 😊

Well said. Harness racing is on its last leg in much of the country, and corruption & race fixing is responsible for much of its decline.

Time is short and judges are reesponsible for calling horses in for more drug testing .

@@patcogni7892 : The Big Lick (Tennessee) is going to end, too. Grotesque abuse of horses... incomprehensible!

50K is nothing

@@michellenainkristinabusch1221 : Well, right now the fines are usually well under $2,000.

That feels so crappy, but this is the very sad world we live in

I totally agree. Stop smacking trainer's on the hand when busted for giving horse's illegal dope. Ban them for life!

The horses make these owners so much money u would think they would take good care of them they just care about the money

In 1919, there were hardly any rules or anyone to enforce them. No pre-race examination, no test barn, no helmets or vests for riders, no injured jockeys fund, no humane euthanasia, lip tattoos, etc. etc. Do you really want to compare it to 2023?

@@tessdurberville711 Sure. People are the same, under the skin, they haven't changed. If they can get away with it, they'll do it.

no Baffert has therapeutc overerages. not illegal substances

Well said. Great comments but most the industry hates HISA because HISA is for the horses and they want to carry on abusing the horses. They might finally learn when racing gets shut down for good

Couldn’t agree more with u💯

These horses wouldnt exist without the owners. They were created to race which they love...

Does it make sense to you to "abuse" a horse that you want to do well?

But the horses have no choice. This is abuse.

@@EyeTunz Exactly

Janney's never owned Seabiscuit but their cousins were the Phipps family that bred and had Seabiscut until he was 3 years old and then sold him.

But…. Details… they don’t matter🙄

Ruffian was bred to break. Research her family, her sire Reviewer & her dam Shenanigans. Breeding not only determines precocity, speed & endurance tendencies, but also physiological strengths & weaknesses passed down through the dam & sire lines. In Ruffian's case the chances of her staying sound were extremely low.

@@noblshtplz yes sir. Agree , I'm familiar with her family tree and that Reviewer broke down three times during his career and died due to a fracture at stud, as well as Shenanigans being euthanized from complications from a fracture. Exactly why I got out of this industry this year.

​@@barbarascotto3873 "Fractures" from being insured, like Alydar?

And NFL

Those are PEOPLE MAKING CHOICES …for THEMSELVES FFS!!!! This is ANIMAL ABUSE & killing!!!

They receive electrolytes.

Permit me to enlighten you. Every owner, trainer, assistant trainer, stable foreman, groom, hotwalker, exercise rider, pony boy/girl, licensed and fingerprinted and has a photo I.D. with a validation sticker for the current meet. You must also be on an employees list of the trainer that you work for. The backstretch/aka backside stable is fenced and there are gates with guard boxes. Good luck getting past them without your I.D. Veterinarians, farriers (blacksmiths), vendors from horse supply/ ta k shops, feed store delivery people, etc. No one gets in without a license or visitor's pass which only trainers can issue and are only good for 1 day. I have said these are "inside jobs" (the doping), but no one looks beyond the trainers and owners. There is a staff in every single barn and a pecking order. These investigators are not looking at the disgruntled employee willing to slip something into the horses feed tubs for a $50 or $100 bill. A lot of these workers are uneducated, possibly here illegally (fake green cards), sending money home, and have no loyalty to the trainer because if he gets suspended or ruled off, there are a hundred other trainers they can go to work for (no resume required, no questions asked) the very next day.

Necropsies are performed on every horse put down on the track because they are all insured.

What government? It's called selective decision making... whomever has the most funds...WINS...

No one claims a horse to sell it to a knacker. It goes through channels first. That would not be cost effective. Horses that do not sell at Horses of Racing Age and Breeding Stock sales are in danger of being bought by those people. I found that out the hard way when an unraced mare that caught my eye in the catalog did not meet her reserve price. When I called, the bloodstock agent admitted putting her on a truck. The mare was from England. How does someone justify flying a horse to another country, never racing or breeding her and then discarding her? It was years ago and it still makes me ill.

Are you glad to finally see the gang members or the cartel stop bringing narcotics into the country stay out of our sport worry about the Dope that’s going in your kids veins

I shipped a mare to be bred at a farm there and followed by car. A week later we both went home. Vile place.

@@tessdurberville711 the problem with being the horse capital of the world is that now greed runs everything to do with horses in that town. And horses kind of helped make that town. So you have an entire town where maybe not every person is greedy, but the town itself is centered around greed. And that greed directly affects lives (horses).

@@Notimp0rtant523 The hospitality was definitely lacking, and I am from Louisiana, so I know hospitality.

@@Notimp0rtant523horse capital of the world is actually OCALA FL

YES!

I meant to say “this ISN’T rocket science.”

​@@angelafestervan7596 There is an edit button. Have you spent much, or any, time on a backstretch....ever? 23 hours? No.

@@tessdurberville711 I meant to type “This isn’t rocket science, y’all” Ok, 22 hours. Not 23.

@@angelafestervan7596 You did not answer me, and 22 is still incorrect.

@@tessdurberville711 I think you mean “backside”. Backstretch happens on the track during a race. That explanation should answer your question

@michaelpierre4467They've had their fair share of collapses and death especially in the steeplechase races

It happens Everywhere! It's All disgusting! The sport itself is based on cruelty.

I had not heard that before. Is it the sugar?

Exactly, CBS is sensationalizing their deaths for what? Viewership which equals money. How is this any different than the “cheaters” and “abusers” that put unsound horses in the track? It’s pure Greed any way you spin it.

Did you mean ...from a sire and a dam with bad legs? The breeders are the main problem with horseracing and the owners are second.

The Governor of California not only hates horseracing, but apparently any and all horses.

Blame the owners and the breeders.

I do, and the industry for promoting it. With big money futurities, and that is in all horse industries. Reining and barrel racing and trotters and the list goes on. But if people were aware of the destruction in a young horses body by these very stressful physically demanding training activities and working activities would they say something? Demand training only begins after 3 years of age?

My oldest was 32, but that is rare, although there are several who made it 35.

That is not true. How many backstretch stable areas have you worked in/visited?

That's all they ever show. They never speak to anyone besides a trainer, except perhaps a jockey, because to the general public the foreman, groom, exercise rider, hotwalker, pony boy/girl are non existent.

A lot of times it is not about going faster, but disguising a sore ankle so the horse can still run.

I'm against all drugs period.

They have been jealous of him from the minute he moved onto the backstretch at Santa Anita. He graduated from the University of Arizona Racetrack Industry Program. A lot of the older trainers barely had high school diplomas and either followed their father's into racing or worked their way up starting as hotwalkers. So there was a prejudice right from the beginning against the "college boy". Then he began winning.

Do you mean it didn’t even scratch the surface of TB racing corruption? That is, inferior care, breeding for speed instead of soundness, backside drugs, throwing horses into the slaughter pipeline, burning tattoos off or digging microchips out, what about all the cheap claiming tracks and the BS that goes on there? Is that what you mean?

The vast majority of Racehorses live better lives than horses off the track.

​@@tksyi_639 I have witnessed (and reported) more abuse and neglect amongst privately owned pleasure horses, lesson horses and show horses than in horseracing.

Just stop the cheating. Ban trainer's when caught cheating.

Outlaw EATING and FISHING right ?

@@marklewen9384 You're comparing apples to oranges and you know it...

@@susieq5270 bacon isn't cruel to pigs? And IM not vegan

@@marklewen9384 Horse racing is not the same as food supply. They are two separate things...Their whole reason for existence is completely different...horse racing is done by people who want to get rich for themselves and themselves only...raising animals for food doesn't just benefit the farmer, it benefits all people...apples to oranges...