Nobody knows

Followup.

I dug a little more on the 5,000 deaths story and found this June 14 Washington Post article:

Thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. reported more than three horse deaths a day last year and 5,000 since 2003, and the vast majority were put down after suffering devastating injuries on the track, according to an Associated Press survey.

Bad enough, and certainly enough to enrage Sharon Cobb. But guess what? We don't know the full story.

Countless other deaths went unreported because of lax record keeping, the AP found in the broadest such review to date....

Arkansas, Michigan, Nebraska said their organizations don't track fatalities at all, and only one of Florida's three main thoroughbred tracks provided numbers. There were wide differences among the other states in what types of deaths are monitored and how far back the records go.

"Nobody really knows how big of a problem it is," said Rick Arthur, California's equine medical director. "They just know it's a big problem."...

[N]o one is certain how many horses are lethally injected on the nation's tracks each year. The Jockey Club, which registers all North American thoroughbreds, did not know of another comprehensive, state-by-state tally of fatalities at tracks before the AP's, said Bob Curran, a Jockey Club vice president.

More here.

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[1:00 - A LOCAL (INLAND EMPIRE CALIFORNIA) PERSPECTIVE (FROM MY INLAND EMPIRE BLOG EMPOPRISE-IE).]

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