Horse deaths prompt calls for change at Churchill Downs



The recent deaths of four horses at Churchill Downs have activists calling for change ahead of the Kentucky Derby. WAVE’s Brandon Spencer reports.

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12 comments

  1. Deplorable sport. People can easily create another event to drink and party over. Sad commentary on heard mentality. Will turn a blind eye to humanity in order to wear linen suit and garish hats while drinking shots of bourbon.

  2. Id be for checking the water

  3. These horses are innocent as if they were children

  4. Haven't followed the ponies in 20 years or more this is absolutely outrageous

  5. To an animal…dope is more likely to have breathing/heart problems. They feel it as pain they react in panic. they DONT enjoy how it feel..its like torture bc it is torture.

  6. 6 Horses are now Dead… 5 horses have been scratched…Forte has now been scratched. This has turned into a Nightmare. They are down to 18 horses, too much $$$ involved to suspend the race, but this will put another nail in the coffin for horse racing in the US.

  7. Your current coverage of Kentucky Derby sucks big time, where do you get these people, fake eh ?

  8. This is why all the dog fights I host are done so surreptitiously. Don't want the "do gooders" ratting me out and costing me money.

  9. Rollkur needs to be stopped as well.

  10. Why wasn't this already a thing? Oh, gambling is involved and nothing is more digusting than gamblers and how they treat everything around themselves.

  11. The amount of abuse and the bad ethics morals and values is through the roof

  12. Good job. Keep it up.