Animal Abuse: Horses Forced to Race in 106-Degree Temps in California
A Stop Horseracing Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM HorseracingWrongs.org
July 2021

Jockeys Irving Orozco and Assael Espinoza got dehydrated during the day and begged off their last mounts.

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The following horses were recent “scratches” from their scheduled starts at the Alameda County Fair:

7/9 MIDNIGHT SUNRISE Sick
7/9 LINFIELD Sick
7/10 SCORCHED Injured
7/10 STRUT TO THE WIRE Unsound
7/11 EMPRESSIVE CAT Sick
7/11 MISTER MOJO Unsound
7/11 TRASH TALKIN CAT Unsound
7/11 MANY ROSES Sick
7/11 AUTISMS WORLD Sick

Added to the 32 previously reported, this makes 41 horses unable to race at this California track due to sickness or injury, over the course of just nine days.

Then there’s this: On both July 9 and July 10, the stewards say, “the temperature hovered around 106 degrees.” 106 degrees. And how did the stewards proceed?

Well, for the jockeys, quite magnanimously: “Jockeys Irving Orozco and Assael Espinoza got dehydrated during the day and begged off their last mounts. Both were replaced by Kevin Orozco.”

 For the other “athletes” (the horses, that is), not so much. For them, it was grin and bear it, boys, there’s money to be made. Vile.


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