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Roky Erickson’s first record. I’ve seen it in person. I don’t own it. But it was fun to look at.

Finger Lakes, Farmington, NY. Big Bad Bud died on the track after finishing 84 lengths back. The jockey could have pulled up at the first sign of distress, but he did not. Racing a horse is animal abuse, and the people who do so are abusers. https://horseracingwrongs.org/2024/10/02/7-year-old-collapses-and-dies-on-finger-lakes-track-after-finishing-84-lengths-back/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=the-last-newslettertotal-posts-from-our-blog-877&fbclid=IwY2xjawFqXy9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfTw0R7Bk4y8c2ZcH7GsxQtJF0oTe5ffejCXjGZaOlaczvbiAsElrR2y7Q_aem_qql-_IqM15ZmKSdKmrf7gw

7-Year-Old Collapses and Dies on Finger Lakes Track After Finishing 84 Lengths Back The Finger Lakes chartwriter is notorious for not reporting bad outcomes. Case in point, the 6th race yesterday. Big Bad Bud, he/she said, was “done early and tired.” The 7-year-old, un…

While major news outlets have not quite caught on to the evils of horse racing, with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News continuing to propose that horse racing can be safely regulated, other outlets are slowly but surely starting to catch on to the fact that the industry is inherently wrong. Read this OP-ED by Patrick Battuello of Horseracing Wrongs in the Lexington Herald-Leader.