The longer that horse racing in Ontario remains in lockdown, the more serious become issues of animal welfare. Racehorses are allowed to train under Ontario’s strict lockdown but – unlike almost all other jurisdictions in the United States and even in other Canadian provinces – they are not allowed to race. The province realizes […]
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The Exodus
Trainer/driver Anthony MacDonald says he grossly underestimated the costs of fleeing a pandemic at home to ply his livelihood in the United States a few weeks ago. The costs cut deeply. It was all so complicated, too. Yet the cost of staying in Ontario during lockdown was higher. “I know everybody keeps saying: ‘Just […]
No Longer Under the Kentucky Derby Radar
HOLD YOUR HORSES: on May 7, the Bob Baffert Stable was notified that Medina Spirit had tested positive after the running of the Kentucky Derby for the Class 3 drug, betamethasone, a corticosteroid. Tests showed 21 picograms of it in his system. Baffer’s sprinter Gamine tested positive for the same drug last year when she […]