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04-10-2009, 11:43 AM
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"Certified safe"
http://www.courier-journal.com/artic.../1037/SPORTS08
I know this topic has been worked over in other threads, but... "The National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Safety and Integrity Alliance announced yesterday that the track -- where Eight Belles suffered a fatal breakdown after her second-place Kentucky Derby finish last year -- received an unconditional two-year accreditation." While there are nice initiatives in this Alliance, what happens when the first horse is critically injured in competition at CD this spring? Does CD lose the blue ribbon of safety? This program is guaranteed to be ridiculed as a failure the minute there is a serious equine or human accident/incident. By terming the accreditation as it has, it enables anti-racing forces upon fatal injury #1 to be able to say "See... these butchers simply cannot prevent the abuse of the horses." Instead of saying "safe" as if it can be assured, say "accredited" as having met all criteria necessary for the minimization of human and equine health risk. Something like that... But as it is being marketed now? Guaranteed to fail because there will be catastrophic injury on track, and nothing will stop that.
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