According to Centennial Farms, the owner of Chelokee (who was injured, remember?), Chelokee successfully completely surgery and is recovering great! He’s not out of the woods yet, but his odds have significantly improved from the 50/50 earlier.
Originally given a 50-50 chance of recovery, we are delighted to report that odds are now in our favor. [...]
Based on the responses to this post, I have a couple things to say:
Horse racing does in fact need changes. The changes are, however, not these, but these.
Betting does drive a huge chunk of horse racing. Race tracks make their gabillions of dollars off of betting (a huge number, even if percentages fell slightly). It’s also [...]
If you were watching the Kentucky Derby telecast, you would know that Big Brown won, and Eight Belles finished second but broke down after her finish. She was euthanized. Already, after checking the google news feed of news on Eight Belles, comments on different newspaper articles are clamoring to “check into this sport” for animal [...]
