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2024
- Klaatu: 10 Years Old, 18 Owners, 17 Trainers, 110 Races
- Defend This: Three Displaced, Open Fractures in Each Front Leg at Santa Anita
- "There's Lots for the Kids to Do" – Like Watching a Horse Fall and Die "Immediately"
- Do You Care About the Jockeys' Mental Health?
- The Evil of Horseracing Subsidies
- Six More Horses Euthanized for EIA at Los Alamitos
- A Day to Celebrate: Another Track—Freehold—Is Closing
- Prominent Horse Breeder Carrie Brogden Calls Her 2-Year-Old a 'Rat Bastard'
- Kentucky's Ellis Park: Three Heatstrokes in Three Days
- The Big Torpedo's Death Was The End of Betting for This Bettor
- Broken Back, Several Sudden Deaths Among West Virginia's 43 Kills… So Far in 2024
- There Are Simply No Words for This Amount of Cruelty and Destruction
- Racehorse death stats
- Major Horse Race Owner Admits That Slaughter Remains a 'Big Problem'
- The Week That Was in Horseracing, July 1, 2024
- Another Wonderful Letter Exposing Horseracing Cruelties
- Good Riddance to Golden Gate (Killing) Fields
- As Golden Gate Racetrack Readies to Die, Let Us Remember Its Victims
- 'I had no idea of the cruelty behind horseracing until this occurred'
- Animal venom seized by customs agents likely headed for horse trainers ahead of Kentucky Derby
- California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) Has 'No Solutions' to Its 'Creeping Death Rate'
- The Fall of Horseracing, by the Numbers
- Will California Horseracing Survive Without Corporate Welfare?
- And Now, Kentucky: "Horse flipped violently three times…catastrophic vertebral fracture."
- What They Did to Geaux Rocket Ride Was Criminal
- Another One – a Track, That Is – Bites the Dust
- "That was the worst thing I have ever seen."
- Busy Ambulances on U.S. Horseracing Tracks, January 14-28, 2024
- Breeder: “[Horseracing] looks like a passenger ship on a collision course with an iceberg.”
2023
- The Hungarian connection to cloning of horses
- The Evil Is in the Details: Horses Killed at U.S. Tracks 2022
- 'Succumbed to His Condition'
- The Redevelopment of Shuttered Tracks Is a Beautiful Thing
- A Monumental Victory: Dale Hiteman Charged With the Crime of Animal Cruelty Today
- Requiem for the Racehorses
- Video of Trainer Dale Hiteman Beating 2-Year-Old Princess Laa (Who Already Had an Injured Neck)
- Baffert, racehorses and betamethasone
- Progress… Another Person sees Horseracing for What it is
- More Evils of Horseracing Subsidies
- Tax Court Judge suggests owner send retired racehorses to slaughter
- I am now vehemently opposed to horseracing
- Turf Paradise (Arizona Racing?) Going, Going...
- Victory: Golden Gate to Shutter for Good
- Seize the City Killed at Belmont...23rd Victim There This Year
- Churchill Downs Released 'Low-hanging Fruit' Safety Rules after 12 Deaths
- How a legacy of black market doping and lobbying groups are killing "the Sport of Kings"
- 612 Horses Killed at Belmont Park Since 2009
- Yes, We're Winning: Attendance at the Preakness Has Been Plummeting
- Animal Abuser Raul Vega Was Going to Race 'Cause for Love' Like This…
- Why We at Horseracing Wrongs Do What We Do: "I stopped wagering three years ago. I stopped watching last year."
- Churchill Downs Averages 25 Kills Per Year
- An Open Letter to Bruno Mars: Don't Play at the Preakness
- The Obscenity of Horseracing as Sport
- Vet: "I feel that Rockinhippiechick suffered tremendously in her final moments." And The Stronach Group Is to Blame
- One Person at a Time
- Horse Racing: Running to Death is Not a Sport!
- If These Don’t Rend Your Heart…
- "I can't imagine the pain this horse endured."
- Damar Hamlin Injury Shows Again That Horseracing Is Not Football (Or Any Other Sport)
2022
- Horse racing is dying in Illinois
- At Least 10 Horses Ambulanced Off U.S. Tracks on One Day - November 25, 2022
- Updated List of Missing Race Horses in California
- Huge Victory in California: No Subsidies for Horseracing
- The Week That Was in Horseracing, October 2022
- "Nup to the Cup" and Moral Progress Down Under
- Another Victory in Massachusetts: Racetrack Proposal Shut Down
- It's the Injured Too, Not Just the Dead
- The Lie That Whipping Doesn’t Hurt the Horse
- Expert on the Cruelty of Bits
- Vernon Downs Racetrack Is a Desolate Dump – All While Enjoying Millions in Corporate Welfare
- Outrage: Five Equine Babies “Vanned Off” at One Track in One Day
- A Win: NY Legislature Finally Says No to New York Racing Association
- The Subsidized Killing of Almost 500 Horses in Pennsylvania
- Protesting at a Horseracing Meeting
- Derby-"Winning" Jockey Was Once Suspended for “Inflicting Visible Injuries on One of His Mounts”
- There’s No Getting Around It: Supporting Today’s Kentucky Derby Means Supporting Animal Cruelty and Animal Killing
- Let the HSUS Know That Dogracing and Horseracing Are One and the Same
- The Losing, Desperate Horseracing Industry
- Another Den of Animal Cruelty (Harness Racing Pompano Park, FL) Shuttered for Good
- The Evil of Horseracing Is Worldwide: At Least 4 Killed at England’s Grand National Meet
- New York remains thoroughfare for horses trucked to Canadian slaughterhouse
- "There's No Getting Around It: Horse Racing is Immoral"
- Another Former Horse Owner/Horseracing Fan Says, Enough
- Shame: The Taxpayer-Funded Killing of 106 Horses in NY Last Year
- Hearts and Minds - Finally Loving Horses more than Horseracing
- 113 Races – With No End in Sight
- Latest Scandal: Jockey Was Betting Against Himself
- The Unformed Racehorse, Revisited
- At Least Three Killed in Same Race at Northfield Saturday
2021
- Speciesist Concerns about Horse Racing
- There's No Substitute for Protest
- Tears for Jorge Navarro? How About Tears for All the Horses He Abused and Killed
- Why Subsidies to NY Horseracing Are Immoral
- A Sad Good Bye to One of Our Own
- 552 Reasons Why Horseracing Is Immoral
- Local Advocates Help Defeat Sturbridge Racetrack Proposal
- Horseracing Deaths in the U.S. October 10 - 17, 2021
- Progress... 40+ Racetracks Closed Since 2000
- Arlington Racetrack Was a House of Cruelty – So Yes, I Am Dancing on Its Grave
- Tell Delaware to revoke training license of horse abuser Amber Cobb
- Excellent Piece on Saratoga and HorseracingWrongs Activism
- Some From Last Week: “Returned Lame,” “Pulled Up Lame,” “Bled From Nostrils,” “Fell in Distress,” “Hit a Fallen Rival”
- The Omak Suicide Race returns in 2021
- Animal Abuse: Horses Forced to Race in 106-Degree Temps in California
- From 2001 to 2020 the U.S. exported close to 2 million horses for slaughter
- Slots are not saving racing. Neither are billions in public subsidies. Can anything?
- Stella Artois to auction NFT (digital) racehorses
- The Baffert Suspension is a Sham. How About Punishing All the Killing, Churchill?
- Former Breeder/Owner on Horse Racing's Tools of Cruelty
- A Letter Template for Horseracing Corporate Sponsors
- Well-Known Trainer on Kentucky Derby Horses: "Every horse is held down with so much equipment it makes my mouth bleed just watching."
- Why people are paying $120,000 to breed digital horses online
- New York State: 6 Harness Kills Already This Year
- Gene Doping in the Equine Athlete: The New Normal in the “Art of Cheating”?
- Momentum: Philadelphia Inquirer Calls for Horseracing to Be "Put Out of Its Misery"
- Educate – and Pressure – Our Politicians to End Horseracing (Contact Information)
- Another North American Track Shuttered for Good
- 42 More Dead Racehorses From Pennsylvania
- Every Horseracing Apologist Should Be Made to Read Through This Entire Post
- Pennsylvania Governor Wolf Again Proposes to Strip Racing’s Corporate Welfare; Moral Progress Beckons
- It’s Time the Media Stops Giving Horseracing a Platform to Deceive and Lie
- Abused – to Death
- For Your Consciences, Horseracing Apologists...
- The Tragedy of Broodmares
- Shame On Anyone Who Attends a Steeplechase
- After 50 Years, Florida’s Calder Race Course Is Shuttered
- The Horseracing Ambulance Report [November 23 - November 30]...
- For $2 Bets [November 6 - November 22]...
- Progress: Another Racetrack to Close – For Good
- For $2 Bets [November 9 - November 15]...
- With Kill Today at Golden Gate, California Stands at 90 Dead on the Year
- For $2 Bets [November 2 - November 8]...
- For $2 Bets [October 19-October 25]...
- The Evil That Men Do: The Tragic Life and Unforgivable Death of Holding Aces
- Expert: Of Course, the Whip Hurts
- To You, the Bettor
- Taking on Canada’s Horse Meat Industry
- A Pair of Broken Backs and a Dislocated Shoulder – Three Kills in One Day at Wyoming Track
- Role of bone microdamage in racehorse leg fractures highlighted in study
- 12 Years Old, 45 Races, 10 Different Trainers, Has Never “Won” – And Yet They Still Keep Forcing Him Out There
- Horseracing is vile. Simply. Vile.
- Two Kills in Four Races at Woodbine Yesterday
- Horse Racing Done With Her, Former “Star” Lands in Kill Pen
- Horse With Screwed-Together Leg Killed at Churchill
- Horse racing must do away with tongue-ties
- Horse Racing Done With Her, Former “Star” Lands in Kill Pen
- Horse With Screwed-Together Leg Killed at Churchill
- Busy Ambulances Last Week on Quarterhorse Tracks
- Horse racing must do away with tongue-ties
- Busy Ambulances Last Week on Quarterhorse Tracks
- The Killing Continues at Los Alamitos, Belmont; California, NY, When Is Enough Enough?
- A third horse dies and HBO's Luck is gone
- Another Kill at Belmont – That’s 40 Dead Animals This Year
- Bute-Enriched Horse Meat
- Five Horses Killed in Two Days of Cheltenham "Festival"
- Four Pennsylvania National Horsetrack Vets Face Federal Charges
- Frog-juiced Racehorses
- Horse Race Illustrates Brutal Side of Sport
- Horseracing: A Dying Industry that Should End
- Horseracing Writer Renounces Industry, and Says This on His Way Out: “A Great Number of Industry People Favor Slaughter”
- Horseracing Wrongs Reports Facts; Their Pathetic Attempts to Discredit Us Won't Work
- How One Snapped, Dangling Leg Changed a Heart Forever
- Idaho's Dead Racehorses - 'Ankle Hanging by a Thread'
- If Dogracing Is Cruel, Morally Indefensible, Then What Is Horseracing?
- In Largest Track Protest Ever, Horseracing Wrongs Brings 105 Activists to Travers Day, August 26
- Industry Response to Horse Being Raced for 156th Time Today: No Worries, Trainer “Loves” Him; He’s “Part of the Family”
- Jump racing suspended at British track after 8 deaths
- Killing Horses in the Name of Sport
- New York Racing Association's Shame
- New York's Horse Racing Subsidy
- NY's Dead Racehorses, 2018 (The 98 That We Know About)
- One Man’s Crusade to End Horse Racing in America
- Ontario’s Horseracing Subsidy, Part 2
- Out of ‘Luck’ on HBO
- “Struggled to Finish and Bled”; “In Distress, Vanned Off”; et al. Last Week
- The Absurdity and Danger of Comparing Horseracing to Football
- The DA Investigation Was a Farce From the Start – Killing Racehorses Has Always Been Perfectly Legal
- The End of Ontario Horseracing? Part 1
- The Power of Protest and the Gruesome Details Behind the Killing
- The Saratoga Race Course 2012 Death Toll
- Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat
- Two More Horses Dead in Race Horror
- Racehorse's Plight Shines Light on Florida's Illegal Slaughter Farms
- Racetrack Drugs Put Europe Off U.S. Horse Meat
- Rider Seriously Hurt, Racehorse Dead
- Save the Horse by Banning the Race
- Stella Artois to auction NFT racehorses
- The Odds for Racehorses
- U.S. Horse Slaughter Revisited
- Why Horseracing is Not Baseball
- Will Doping Spare American Horses the Butcher Knife?
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