NYT: Drugs & I Want Revenge

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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.

Thank you for bringing that up- that was the first thing I thought when I read the statistics- that he was clear to distinguish between synthetic and dirt fatality statistics in the US, but then lumped everything in Europe into one statistic.

Are turf fatality statistics for US tracks compiled and released anywhere?

Though I did find it very interesting that Northrop felt the owners deserved more transparency about treatments and medication an animal is getting, but the betting public doesn't. As the lolcats would say, dood, srsly?