Racetrack Deaths

have gone down slightly since the death of Eight Belles in last year's Kentucky Derby. There have been many improvements and reforms, which is good. Of course if a horse takes a bad step and injures itself seriously, a horse's physiology makes it much more difficult for horses to recover from catastrophic injuries.

I think in the end breeders need to go back to the way it used to be thirty or more years ago when horses were bred for soundness although they were slower than horses of today.

Naturally the animal rights nuts don't think any reform is good enough because they don't believe in any animal domestication at all, as they regard it as "slavery."