We also should be grateful that major track owners and operators on the East Coast canceled live racing the past few days in the wake of the death of John Brennan and the illness of many other members of our small community who live in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Truth is, friends, only a relatively few people actually gave a shit about horses and horse racing this past week - and for that we should be oddly grateful. The bad news from and to the industry was largely lost to the general world. The biggest horse doping scandal in a decade, an alleged tale of greed and cruelty to the animals we profess to love, was drowned in a sea of news surrounding the coronavirus and the Trump administration’s disastrous response to it. To quote Sally Jenkins: “Good horsepeople must form a moral blockade and utterly shun those they suspect of drugging and masking injuries.”Īs we look back on one of the worst weeks in the history of harness racing - think about it - we can take some small solace in the fact that it could have been a lot worse.
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