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February 20, 2024
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Bossier Town, Los angeles. – Within the wake of PETA’s 10-month undercover investigation into unsanctioned Quarter Horse racing at two infamous “bush tracks” in Georgia, prosecutors within the state have charged six jockeys with cruelty to animals and one bookie with prison business playing. One of the vital jockeys, Germarius O’Neal, raced at Louisiana Downs prior to now month.
Jockey Germarius O’Neal (proper) whips a horse in a black marketplace race in Georgia (left).
Georgia “bush monitor” proprietor and convicted felon Arthur “Brutz” English IV lately taunted law-enforcement officers by means of growing promotional pens formed like syringes and published with the monitor’s emblem.
PETA investigators captured photos that displays rampant doping of horses, together with injections of cocaine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate (Ritalin); jockeys the use of electrical surprise gadgets on and relentlessly whipping horses; and ugly and deadly accidents to horses and jockeys. Masses of 1000’s of bucks in unlawful wagers modified fingers.
The Washington Submit simply printed in “The Feds’ Raid on a Bush Observe Fizzled, so Horses Saved Racing—and Loss of life” that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Management, the U.S. Division of Fatherland Safety, and the U.S. Division of Agriculture deliberate to raid the Georgia tracks following PETA’s investigation, however on the ultimate second, for causes identified handiest to the businesses, didn’t—permitting the abuse to proceed.
“The Louisiana Racing Fee must now not tolerate those jockeys’ participation in black marketplace racing,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA’s video photos displays those jockeys relentlessly whipping horses or wielding surprise gadgets—movements which might be unlawful in Indiana—and the fee must yank their licenses straight away.”
The American Veterinary Clinical Affiliation and the American Affiliation of Equine Practitioners introduced new insurance policies in opposition to unsanctioned horse racing after PETA’s investigation, confirming risks to the horses from this abusive drugging and from equine infectious anemia, an uncurable illness led to by means of the importation of tainted blood-doping merchandise and the reuse of needles on a couple of horses.
Lately, the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) instituted a brand new rule after being alerted by means of PETA to the rampant cruelty at greater than 170 bush tracks working in over 30 states around the U.S. Particularly, the CHRB amended Rule 1902, “Habits Negative to Horse Racing,” to ban licensees from “participation in, or presence at, any non-recognized race assembly the place racing happened.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to make use of for leisure or abuse in every other manner”—issues out that Each Animal Is Any person and gives loose Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For more info, please talk over with PETA.org or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.