More Positive Racing News From Mountaineer

[Konk]

Disgusting.

The tattoo should reveal who the owner of record is.
He needs to go to jail and get a lifetime ban.
Mountaineer - should be boycotted until that guy there is fired.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by Konk

Disgusting.

The tattoo should reveal who the owner of record is.
He needs to go to jail and get a lifetime ban.
Mountaineer - should be boycotted until that guy there is fired.

They know who the owner is, it’s in the article. They are still collecting information but what I’ve heard is the horse was euthanized after being injured and instead of taking the horse to where they usually do, someone at Mountaineer allegedly brought her to the landfill. Again, not sure how true that is, the what I’ve heard.

Another situation where no one in the industry is talking while the story takes off.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Konk

Disgusting.

The tattoo should reveal who the owner of record is.
He needs to go to jail and get a lifetime ban.
Mountaineer - should be boycotted until that guy there is fired.

The owner? What did she (Vickie Stewart) do?

There's only one question to be answered about this awful circumstance: How did it happen that this particular horse wasn't brought to the rendering facility?

[Rupert Pupkin]

'Industrial Scale' Slaughter of Australian Racehorses Revealed

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mass-sl...004101570.html

[Kasept]

Because they can't help but operate in an underhanded manner, a put up job by PETA. To quote Turo Escalante, "What a surprise"..

I give Vickie Keith of the National Thoroughbred Welfare Organization a lot of credit. She said fix was in from the outset.

From DRF..

[knickslions2]

Big surprise. PETA is nothing but a collection of uneducated scumbags.

[Dahoss]

Obviously PETA is despicable but does it really change anything? Why are we celebrating that PETA might have staged the photo? Anyone pay attention to Mountaineer at all and some of the nonsense going on there? I’m no Pat Cummings fan but he sums it up pretty well here.

https://www.paulickreport.com/news/t...ide-nightmare/

Frankly, PETA has an even bigger voice now because of the disaster at Santa Anita this winter that was handled about as poorly as a situation can be handled. Hollendorfer still can’t run horses in his name in New York or at any TSG track. You couldn’t walk into Saratoga this summer without being met by protestors. The CHRB covering up Justify’s positive, regardless of how inconsequential it was. Should I go on? Sure most horses are treated well, but too many are not. Where is the outrage from the industry leaders (whoever they might be) to take a stand?

When is the time to acknowledge things have been getting worse? I’m not sure putting our guard up works anymore. There is a lot of good in the game but pretending the bad doesn’t exist seems shortsighted. I don’t have many answers but I also don’t make a living in the sport. I just love it and have for over half of my life. I participate in it with my hard earned money but even I am beginning to wonder at what cost? Whenever anything bad is brought up, the answer can’t be “but we do this good.” It has to be “we can and will do better,” and then doing better.

Kudos to Santa Anita for doing better, but it took a monumental crisis for it to happen. Sorry for the ramble but if a lifer like myself questions his own participation sometimes, what does that say about others? Those of you that know me know how I feel about racing. I just want it to be better. The horses and all who participate deserve it.

[Kasept]

What's your solution Hossy? Close all the C tracks? Propose something.

By the way, understand that these frantic calls to create a general panic aew all designed to do one thing: Feed into the Jockey Club glee for their ill-conceived 'Integrity Act', USADA and an undermining of the state regulators. Good luck to everybody with that plan that horseplayers will be 'asked' (made) to pay for.