Q&A: New Integrity Rules Coming to Horse Racing bloodhorse.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bloodhorse.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hi Amy. As an experienced horse person I can tell you racing is not cruel in of itself, and if it is, then every other equine discipline is as well. There are good, and bad people in every aspect of life, including every equine industry. Most horse people of every equine breed are good people, who truly love horses, hence their involvement, hard work, and passion, but sadly in every riding discipline there are cruel people. Racing gets picked on MUCH MORE, due to being in the public eye, and the money involved, mainly due to gambling, but other facets of the horse world are every bit as bad, and the general public for most part is completely unaware! Show horses are drugged to both perform as desired, or to conceal issues, including joint injections, but show horses are not tested like racehorses. Show horses also endure some cruel training, and shoeing tactics, and this does not just apply to Tennessee Walking Horses. Arabian show horses, mainly halter horses, are whipped WAY mo
Medina Spirit Drops To Fourth In NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll Sponsored by:
Mandaloun & Medina Spirit in the stretch in Kentucky Derby 147 at Churchill Downs 05.01.21.
Following the report of a failed drug test by race winner Medina Spirit after the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve at Churchill Downs on May 1, there has been a shake up in the top five positions in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll. Juddmonte s Mandaloun, runner-up to Medina Spirit by a half-length in the Derby, has risen to No. 1 in the poll, with Zedan Racing s Medina Spirit dropping to No. 4.
Wagering Insecurity: Suspicious Alerts
This is Part 9 of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation s (TIF) series “Wagering Insecurity.”
Faced with remarkable competitive pressure from the rise of legal sports betting, horse racing is at a crossroads.
Confidence amongst horseplayers and horse owners is essential to the future sustainability of the sport. Efforts to improve the greater North American Thoroughbred industry will fall flat if its stakeholders fail to secure a foundation of integrity, along with increased transparency of the wagering business and its participants over time. Achieving this is growing increasingly difficult after the sport has neglected its core base – horseplayers – for decades.
Here s who wins the Kentucky Derby if Medina Spirit is disqualified cnn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.