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Originally Posted by Kasept
Interesting piece.. Pretty irresponsible and disingenuous of Drape to include these statistics and assert that the U.S. has the "worst mortality rate" without explaining to a largely ignorant readership that the majority of American (main track) racing is very different than European and Australian (turf) racing.
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If you didnt know the stats, would you think 1 horse out of 1000 is a "much lower" rate than 2 out of 1000?
But in his defense it is the NY Times so the standards of writing are relatively low.