“Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,” a 6,400-word article splashed across
the front-page of last Sunday’s New York Times, might have been a fair
and useful piece of investigative journalism had it stuck to its scope:
Rates of equine injuries and fatalities at some tracks, particularly
Quarter Horse venues in the Southwest, are alarmingly high. There also
are legitimate questions about the quality of oversight and regulation
in an era when some of these tracks are operated by casino companies
whose primary interest in racing is to secure licenses for their
slot-machine operations.
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