'Broken Horses' reveals how rampant doping and corruption have led to shocking deaths and a crisis in the sport of kings
Exercise riders work out their mounts on the morning of the 2023 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park racetrack in New York.on Saturday, the pageantry of “the sport of kings” will be on full display: magnificent thoroughbreds thundering down the muddy, mile-and-a-quarter-long track at Churchill Downs, a heavy-betting crowd in their most flamboyant finery cheering them on.
Known for his dark shades, snow white hair, and brash swagger, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is one of the rare horse racing personalities to transcend the sport. One of only two trainers in history to win horse racing’s Triple Crown , he’s raked in hundreds of millions of dollars over his four-decade career.
In the late-19th century, the horse racing calendar included several scheduled rest periods. Those days are no more. Now, racehorses are expected to perform at their peak all year long, making them vulnerable to fractures — and worse. In 2023, a Baffert-trained horse named Havnameltdown was euthanized after stumbling in a race due to a left ankle injury. Breeder Katherine Devall calls the death simply “an accident.
“Unless you give bones time to recover, they’re never fully going to recover,” Hoppert says. “If you keep racing on that, a fatal, catastrophic injury is almost inevitable. So they know this, they have science that says this. there no rules in place to prevent the over-running of the horses.
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