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Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

August 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 87th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 12-15,  2021,  after a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Native American beliefs, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Wild horses Tagged With: Alex Dick, Allison Williams, Claire Pentz, Karen West, Larry Lansburgh, Lillian A. Ackerman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Timiraos, Roger Harnack, Warren Cox, Will Anderson

Trump signs anti-race horse doping bill & $60 million gift to horse industry

December 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Tax break for Paycheck Protection Program loan/grant recipients appears to have been the dangling carrot that brought horse racing industry support for omnibus funding bill             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27,  2020 “signed H.R. 133,  an Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021,  providing coronavirus emergency response […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Bill Shanklin, Clant Seay, Joseph D. Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Pit bulls, wolves win in Colorado; horse racing wins in Nebraska; Hsiung loses

November 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Colorado goes to the dogs             DENVER, Colorado; LINCOLN, Nebraska;  BERKELEY, California––Democratic challenger Joe Biden narrowly led Republican incumbent Donald Trump at 1:45,  Pacific time,  on November 4,  2020. The three major ballot issues and one mayoral race directly involving animals appeared to have ended,  however,  with a win for pit bulls in Denver,  a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Herndon, Dave Dreeszen, David Bernhardt, Frances Dinkelspiel, Ho-Chunk, Merritt Clifton, Michael B. Hancock, Wayne Hsiung

Girl, 11, & father killed over a bull mastiff? Race horses involved too?

July 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Former thoroughbred owner shot son & granddaughter of renowned jockey & racing judge PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida—Why did Ronald John Delserro,  82,  on July 6,  2020 fatally shoot two of his longtime Port St. Lucie neighbors,  11-year-old Harper Hansman and her father Guy Alexander Hansman,  55? Was Delserro’s grievance only because the Hansman family brought […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing Tagged With: Guy Hansman, Harper Hansman, Larry Hansman, Merritt Clifton, Mike Burgwin, Monique Hansman, Ronald Delserro, Will Greenlee

Horse racing fails to win, place, or show in Georgia, despite HSUS support

July 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why is the Humane Society of the U.S. helping horse racing to expand into new territory? ATLANTA, Georgia––Again the perennial horse racing industry attempt to legalize pari-mutuel betting and introduce thoroughbred racing to Georgia failed during the 2020 state legislative session,  closed on July 3. Opposition to legalizing pari-mutuel betting came chiefly from religious groups […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Racing, USA Tagged With: Kitty Block, Natalie Voss, Patrick Battuello, Rick Bernthal, Valerie Pringle, Wayne Pacelle

Why Europe will not eat U.S. & Australian wild horses

May 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch & Danish seizures of illegally trafficked German horse meat do not mean revived demand             WASHINGTON D.C.,  BRUSSELS––Yes,  the Bureau of Land Management under Donald Trump appointee William Perry Pendley is desperately eager to dispose of as many as 45,000 wild horses in holding pens,  plus about 68,000 of the estimated 95,000 wild horses […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Slaughter, United Kingdom, Wild horses Tagged With: Jan Fasen, Manuel Coto, Merritt Clifton, Toby Sterling, William Perry Pendley, Willy Selten

Iconic animal use events fall to COVID-19: “Running of the bulls” is latest

April 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby,  & the carriage horses in Central Park             PAMPLONA,  Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal racing, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur trapping, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Racing, Scandinavia, Spain, Spectacles, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ana Elizalde, Ernest Hemingway, Kentucky Derby, Kopenhagen Fur, Merritt Clifton, Saga Furs

Montreal carriage horse trade ends, after 354 years

January 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Calèche” industry was long intertwined with defunct harness track,  start of the Premarin industry,  horse slaughter,  and a notorious glue factory              MONTREAL, Quebec––The last vehicle-pulling horses in Montreal,  Quebec,  are to be off the streets before sunset on December 31,  2019––an hour which,  as this article is posted,  has already come and gone. “Far […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, PMU, Racing, The Americas, Working horses Tagged With: Christiane Vadnais, Denis Coderre, Denis Murray, Luc Desparois, Merritt Clifton, Valerie Plante

Race track deaths upstage notice of horses “retired” due to injury

December 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

45 horses dead on three Southern California tracks during 2019 seasons––and 39 at Belmont alone LOS ALAMITOS,  California––Two horse deaths in the first race of the next-to-last-day of the Los Alamitos Race Course on December 14,  2019 renewed attention to high injury toll in horse racing,  but upstaged the disintegration of the California Equine Retirement […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, Sports, USA

California Equine Retirement Foundation runs into deep muck

December 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Current leadership allegedly squandered assets & 27-year positive track record under ousted founder SAN JACINTO,  California––Among the 80-odd animal shelters,  sanctuaries,  and nonprofit rescue organizations foundering in 2019,  the California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF) has probably run through the most money over the past five years. Along the way,  CERF blew the the best reputation […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Donkeys, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Sports, USA Tagged With: Carrie L. Ard, Grace Belcoure, Helen Meredith, Josephine Italiano, Margaret Ransom, Merritt Clifton, Paul Young

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