Horse Racing Needs Integrity to Remain Relevant
Horse racing struggles to remain relevant especially given the bag of abhorrent tricks we are learning that trainers use to get horses to run faster plus one gutsy New York Times reporter discovers that the Mexican Drug cartels are hiding millions of dollars in US quarter horse racing. I’m Susan Allen stay tuned for Open Range. Funny I once believed horse racing was one the most exciting and glamorous sports, fresh out of college working in PR at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate tracks in Northern California . Today the industry is fed by greed and turns a blind eye to corruption and cruelty. The trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another” isn’t even being held accountable for his terrible track record of hurting horses.Doug O’Neil has quite a record of using illegal substances even a prior suspension to get his horses to run faster. Yes he was suspended by the California racing Board prior to the Belmont for “milk shaking” (attempting to increase the carbon dioxide in a horses blood by pumping full of baking soda, sugar and water.) Yet conveniently his suspension wouldn’t take effect until well after the Belmont. Lack of integrity by racing boards is causing the masses to be turned off by the sport, hwo wants to watch horses break down race after race. I’ll Have Another” tendonitis made him one of the lucky ones, retiring before he would be eventually be destroyed . Tomorrow, is the Quarter horse still America’s horse. The Mexican Cartel influence on American Quarter Horse Racing.
