Breaking information: Nowadays New York State Police arrested harness racing teacher Frederick Bourgault for allegedly beating a horse named End Line so violently that he needed to be euthanized. Bourgault used to be charged with two felonies: interference with or harm to sure home animals and prison mischief in the second one stage.
The incident reportedly happened in mid-July 2023 at Pine Bush Coaching Facility in Pine Bush, New York. PETA used to be knowledgeable of the alleged beating via former teacher Mike Petrelli and in an instant contacted the police.
End Line’s frame, which were buried at the coaching facility’s belongings, used to be exhumed and despatched to a laboratory for a necropsy.
The Violent Monitor Report of Instructor Frederick Bourgault
Bourgault, who has skilled horses compelled to race at Tioga Downs and Monticello Raceway, used to be suspended in 2020 via the Alcohol and Gaming Fee of Ontario in Canada for beating a horse who had positioned 5th in a race. He has a protracted historical past of violations in New York state and has been fined and/or suspended for kicking horses and for over the top use of the whip.
In 2022, the New York State Gaming Fee fined Bourgault for whipping a horse after a race and directed him to take an anger control direction. In April 2023, Bourgault used to be once more fined for over the top whipping.
Frederick Bourgault is a repeat perpetrator who must were booted from racing years in the past, the primary time he whipped a horse after a race used to be over.
—PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo
PETA questions why the gaming fee and tracks have allowed Bourgault, together with his documented historical past of violence and violations, to proceed racing and why New York taxpayers are compelled to enhance the harness racing business with $100 million in subsidies annually.
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