Eight horses recently died in the lead up to and since the Kentucky Derby. For decades, animal rights activists have called for a ban, saying reforms have failed.
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss why eight horses died in the lead up to and since the Kentucky Derby.
Elizabeth Banicki used to work in the horse racing industry, but left due to its cruelty. She says horses are pushed to exhaustion. There is no other mainstream sport where carnage and indifference occur so regularly – and are as tolerated. Is it time to ban the billion dollar horse racing industry?