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Originally Posted by depalma113

The messenger needs to be attacked. It was a hit piece and not journalism. The writer exploited a bad situation in New Mexico and than extrapolated it to the entire industry throughout the country. Rather than showing the problem in one state, a state that lacks regulation and enforcement, the writer sets his sights on the entire sport.

Did they run their computer analysis without the data from New Mexico? My guess is they didn't. When five of the six worst offenders are in one state, that one state has a problem. Had they included in their story that they had run the data without New Mexico and the results were the same, than they have a legitimate argument. I doubt the data would support that result.

Last year a 3 year-old died at the OBS June sale. It was the only fatality during the 2 day under tack show. Nearly 600 horses worked out and one had a heart attack and died on the track. PETA ambushed OBS based on that one horse. Just as The New York Times is ambushing the entire racing industry because of one jurisdiction. It sensationalized one incident and ignored the hundreds of times the racing goes off without a problem.

Anyone who writes that "race officials have always done their best to hide fatal breakdowns" and than sites a screen used to keep the public from seeing a horse being euthanized, has an agenda. Those same screens are used on highways all across America when fatal car accidents occur. It is not some sinister plot.

Sharp post.