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A Blood Sport For The Rich And Famous?, Harold Herzog
A Blood Sport For The Rich And Famous?, Harold Herzog
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A new report finds horse racing carnage is getting worse.
Whip Use By Jockeys In A Sample Of Australian Thoroughbred Races—An Observational Study, Paul D. Mcgreevy, Robert A. Corken, Hannah Salvin, Celeste M. Black
Whip Use By Jockeys In A Sample Of Australian Thoroughbred Races—An Observational Study, Paul D. Mcgreevy, Robert A. Corken, Hannah Salvin, Celeste M. Black
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The use of whips by jockeys is an issue. The current study viewed opportunistic high-speed footage of 15 race finishes frame-by-frame to examine the outcomes of arm and wrist actions (n = 350) on 40 horses viewed from the left of the field. Any actions fully or partially obscured by infrastructure or other horses were removed from the database, leaving a total of 104 non-contact sweeps and 134 strikes. For all instances of arm actions that resulted in fully visible whip strikes behind the saddle (n = 109), the outcomes noted were area struck, percentage of unpadded section making contact, …
Horse Racing: Cruelties We Condone And Cruelties We Condemn, Harold Herzog
Horse Racing: Cruelties We Condone And Cruelties We Condemn, Harold Herzog
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Why the deaths of HBO's "Luck" horses were predictable.