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18 March 2009

Flotsam and Jetsam

  1. Winstrol...it's what's for dinner.
  2. Limiting your options...always a good idea.
    In a footnote, Shepherd also questioned the authority's initial rationale that jockey advertising could challenge "the time-honored traditions and splendor of thoroughbred racing" for a race that itself is now sponsored by Yum! Brands.
  3. Something you will never hear at CDI or Brisnet or DRF or....
    “We could raise our prices to make money,” she said. “But that’s not in our mission statement.”
  4. What if Stronach did this when Magna dies? Here is the link for the Injured Jockeys Fund(ht...MR)
    With no heir, the late Herbert Blagrave, a philanthropic racing figure, left his family fortune to a trust, along with orders that the money should be spent on sick children, the elderly and injured jockeys.
  5. Any US trainers that do something like this? (check the byline)
  6. Rumor has it the BC is shopping around for a host track to replace Santa Anita this year, should the Magna situation take a shit. I'm just saying.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Point #1 on that list is not good...and from my home country to boot.

I trust you've sent the link to Alex...

Cheers

Keith

G. Rarick said...

I don't know why the BBC report is treating this like it's a big secret. Horses from Britain AND Ireland AND Northern Ireland end up in Continental slaughter houses all the time. Some of the numbers are here:
http://www.civ-viande.org/10-69-cheval-chiffres.html
I'm not defending this at all, but I think reporters should approach this issue with facts rather than emotion, which would make a far stronger case for ending slaughter. Horse meat in France is pitched as "healthy" lean-meat alternative, and if the facts on the medical treatment of most of the animals in the food chain were better documented, the demand would fall even faster than it already is falling.

Anonymous said...

what about the poor cows slaughtered every day? They count too.

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