Time for a shake-up in horse racing
The breakdown of wonder horse Barbaro at the Preakness [last week] was shocking beyond words to thousands of people in Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course stands and to millions in the television audience. I was not the only one who was reminded of Ruffian, the racing champion who broke her leg in the much-heralded 1975 match race against Foolish Pleasure. Watching Barbaro try to keep running in spite of his broken, dangling leg, I got the same sickening feeling in my stomach as I did 30 years ago when I saw that beautiful bay filly's leg snap.Here's the real tragedy: The only thing that has changed in the last three decades is that breakdowns of this sort are more likely to happen. Barbaro's terrible injuries are common enough on today's race courses that anyone not blinded by the quest for glory and profit can see that reforms in training and racing methods are long past due.
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Find out more about veterinary services at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.
Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050
The breakdown of wonder horse Barbaro at the Preakness [last week] was shocking beyond words to thousands of people in Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course stands and to millions in the television audience. I was not the only one who was reminded of Ruffian, the racing champion who broke her leg in the much-heralded 1975 match race against Foolish Pleasure. Watching Barbaro try to keep running in spite of his broken, dangling leg, I got the same sickening feeling in my stomach as I did 30 years ago when I saw that beautiful bay filly's leg snap.Here's the real tragedy: The only thing that has changed in the last three decades is that breakdowns of this sort are more likely to happen. Barbaro's terrible injuries are common enough on today's race courses that anyone not blinded by the quest for glory and profit can see that reforms in training and racing methods are long past due.Find out more about veterinary services at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.
#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050
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