Overlooking drug abuse in horse racing isn’t just shortsighted—it’s deadly.
PETA calls for an investigation into the apparently excessive whipping of a horse at Parx racetrack.
When other sports take drug violations seriously, why does Steve Asmussen get a pass?
Bear Witness was the grandson of a Triple Crown champion. But that didn’t save him from being starved and cast off like an old shoe.
PETA calls for an investigation into Thoroughbred vet’s practices.
When a “prized” horse was found butchered, a community was horrified. But what about all the American horses sent to Canada and Mexico for slaughter every year?
As horses drop like flies, PETA asks the San Diego sheriff and district attorney to step in.
Seventy-one deaths would decimate the New York Mets and Yankees, but it’s just business as usual for horse racing.
The California Horse Racing Board has implemented the strictest whip regulation in the country.
Even on one of the most elite days of racing, the horses aren’t safe. Four-year-old Helwan, a French horse, was racing on Lasix for the first time—something that is not allowed in Europe—and like more than 1,000 horses a year in the U.S., he died on the track. U.S. racing is about drugs, breakdowns, and … Read more »
American Pharoah was whipped at least 32 times during the Kentucky Derby. The racing commission’s response? Meh.
A horse named Tickles was put down after he suffered a leg injury.
A look at a heartbreaking series of photos that show what happens to thoroughbred horses in Japan.
Think all racehorses are retired to bucolic farms in the country? Don’t bet on it.
It was a deadly summer meet at Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, California, and PETA is demanding answers.
