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Three more chuckwagon horses killed as Calgary Stampede 2019 ends

July 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Six horses killed in 10 days; most since 1986              CALGARY,  Alberta––The 2019 Calgary Stampede ended on the night of July 14,  2019 with reportedly the second-highest attendance in the history of the event,  and three more horses killed in the climactic last heat of the Rangeland Derby,  the chuckwagon races that for almost a […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas Tagged With: Bill McEwen, Chad Harden, Danny Ringuette, Emma McIntosh, Eugene Jackson, Evan Salmond, Guy Weadick, Lew Wallace, Merritt Clifton, Troy Dorchester

Alleged “horses for ransom” brokers busted in Louisiana

March 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Killer buyers,”  associates of killer-buyers,  & partners in questionable rescues             FORT POLK,  Louisiana––Thompson Horse Lot owner Gary Thompson,  64,  of Pitkin,  Louisiana,  who held a controversial contract to remove an estimated 700 to 750 wild horses from the 198,000-acre Fort Polk military installation,  is facing 18 counts of cruelty to animals for alleged severe […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses Tagged With: Dina Alborano, Eric Mitchell, Gary Thompson, Hal Parker, Jacob Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Ray Paulick, Steve Haskin, Victoria Keith

Will Santa Anita figure out what’s killing race horses? Don’t bet on it!

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Investigators are only 3,500 years behind Chinese potters in figuring out that wood ash hardens clay ARCADIA,  California––Cro-Magnon troglodytes apparently never figured out that wood ash hardens clay,  despite having many millennia of opportunity to do so. Thus the failure of the Santa Anita Park management to investigate the effects of soot and ash fallout […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sports Tagged With: David Bernstein, Joe Drape, Larry Bramlage, Merritt Clifton, Scott Jagow, Tim Ritvo

Fire, horses, & Santa Anita: ashes,  ashes,  they all fall down?

March 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

A global warming connection to record racehorse deaths? ARCADIA, California––All eyes concerned about horses and horse racing have had the Santa Anita Park turf and track surfaces under microscopic examination since Ash Wednesday,  March 6,  2019. Yet hardly anyone so far seems to be looking at the possible track-hardening effects of soot and ash deposition […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, USA Tagged With: Andy LaRocco, Art Sherman, Beth Harris, Ingrid Newkirk, Merritt Clifton, Mick Peterson, Rick Arthur, Rick Baedecker, Ron McAnally, Scott Jagow, Tim Ritvo

20 racehorses die in 10 weeks at Santa Anita Park––why?

March 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Santa Anita deaths revive debate over track surface safety             ARCADIA, California––Famed as the oldest horse racing venue in California,  hosting races 1904-1909,  1934-1941,  and 1945-present,  and as the scene of some of the most memorable wins by Seabiscuit and come-from-behind specialist Silky Sullivan,  Santa Anita Park is suddenly notorious for 20 horse deaths in […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sports Tagged With: Alan Zarembo, Corey Nakatani, Eskenforadrink, Geovanni Franco, Jeremy Balan, John Cherwa, Leanne Suter, Merritt Clifton, Tim Grande

Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election

November 5, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12;  Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13             SACRAMENTO, California;  ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA, Uses of dogs, Welfare Tagged With: Brad Miller, Carey Thiel, Lynne Curry, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Tracy Reiman, Wayne Pacelle

Omak “Suicide Race” 2018: more dead horses & “kill the messenger”

September 14, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Tribal baseball tradition much better documented than “suicide racing”             OMAK,  Washington––Add at least two more dead horses to the mounting toll from the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo “Suicide Race,”  bringing the known toll since 1983 to 25,  with many more suspected but undocumented,  and no record existing of injuries and deaths from the first […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Dave Skeels, Merritt Clifton, Paul Maley, Roger Harnack, Shamy Johnson, Tina Stratemeyer

Humans snort coke 170 times more often than racing greyhounds

March 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Studies exonerate more than 99.9% of racing greyhounds,  but not necessarily their trainers             GAINESVILLE,  Florida––If dogs could do drugs unassisted,  the hard-working,  short,  highly stressed life of a racing greyhound might drive many times more to substance abuse than just the 1,150 greyhounds among more than 700,000 known to have flunked race day urine […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Sports, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Carey M. Theil, Casey Jones, Charles F. McClellan, Greg Cima, Jennifer Y. Rosenblum, Malcolm McAllister, Merritt Clifton, Natasha L. Nemeth

Greyhound Friends founder acquitted of felony neglect

December 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Rescue legend allegedly no longer kept up with the pack          FRAMINGHAM,  Massachusetts–– Greyhound Friends founder Louise Coleman,  73,  for nearly 35 years a pioneer of racing greyhound rescue,  rehabilitation,  and adoption,  was on December 1,  2017 acquitted of felony neglect by Framingham District Court Judge David Cunis,  after a four-day bench trial. Concluded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Ireland, Isles, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Kevin Schneider, Louise Coleman, Merritt Clifton, Stoddard Melhado

Hurricane Harvey: how horses, cattle, lab & zoo animals fared

September 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Many still need help HOUSTON, Texas––How have horses,  cattle,  and animals kept in laboratories and zoos fared through Hurricane Harvey and aftermath? Soggy doggies and cats took the media spotlight during the first week of the Harvey crisis,  but animals of every species shared the impact of the record deluge. (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Science, Show, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Amber Aldaco, Carrie Arnold, Cash Clark, Chance Ward, Clint Seay, Emma Harris, Jerry Finch, Jesse Salinas, Jimmy Zaplac, Lee Ehmke, Mary Robinson DVM, Merritt Clifton, Michael Magaw, Pat Raia, Ray Paulick, Teresa Magaw, Thomas Swafford

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