{"id":8714,"date":"2012-03-25T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2012-03-25T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T15:32:53","slug":"mangled-horses-maimed-jockeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8714","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AQHA_purses_up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AQHA_purses_up.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AQHA_purses_up\" width=\"252\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8715\" \/><\/a>A sobering feature in today&#8217;s &#8220;New York Times&#8221; details the incidences of injuries and breakdowns at U.S. horse racing tracks, including the fact that even non-fatal horse breakdowns imperil the lives of jockeys.<\/p>\n<p>Famous champion Quarter Horse jockey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8051\">Jacky Martin<\/a>, paralyzed from the neck down as the result of a breakdown last September at Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, is among the jockeys, trainers, racing officials, and veterinarians, interviewed for the article, many, including Martin, in attached video clips.<\/p>\n<p>The article is not an indictment against racing, but raises questions about the legal and illegal use of drugs in race horses, particularly in New Mexico, where 4 out of the 5 tracks are unaccredited and enforcement of drug violations is relatively lenient compared to other states.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/25\/us\/death-and-disarray-at-americas-racetracks.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">&#8220;Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,&#8221;<\/a> is definitely worth a clear-eyed look for anyone who loves horses and racing, as well as all performance horse events where drugs are an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sobering feature in today&#8217;s &#8220;New York Times&#8221; details the incidences of injuries and breakdowns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8719,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}