
Weekend Read: You needn’t know anything about horses, nor horse racing, nor even the damn Kentucky Derby to get sucked into “Breakdown,” a horrifying New York Times investigation into horse injuries and deaths at race tracks across America.
Award-winning reporters Joe Drape and Walt Bogdanich spent months analyzing three years of race reports — 150,000 in all — and their findings, laid bare in the ongoing, multi-story series, have prompted at least one state to take a closer look at its lack of law and order regarding horse doping.
Not to be missed.
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YOU MUST READ THIS…you needn’t know anything about horses, nor horse racing, nor even the damn Kentucky Derby to get...
I don’t want to read this because I know it’ll make me sad/sick/angry.
always hated horse racing.
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While I am not surprised by the ‘doping’ content of the story, the sheer volume of deaths is more than I could have ever...