Derby injuries

Letter to the Editor: Wayne McIlwraith on a `Safe' Track

As well documented by Bill Finley in the Week in Review, Kentucky Derby Day (as well as the week preceding it) was a very bad day for racing. "Efforts to end the sport picked up a lot of momentum Saturday and that's a very scary thing," is hard reading, but it is real. What also scares me is what I read in Sundays TDN in the article "Two more equine deaths at Churchill Downs" was in the statement from HISA that said: "Dr Peterson has assured both HISA and Churchill...

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