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great comments i have no first hand knowledge of this incident but i will assume that if charges were laid it is serious and truehere is the issue, cosa and all other groups spread the gospel on how the people who work with horses love the animals and treat them like children , for the most part i agree, any horses i have been involved with have been well cared for from what i have seenbut very little of it resonates with the general public, but a case of animal cruelty if true and if picked up will spread on social media like wild fire, the last thing this industry needs right now, and to make it worse will be the fact the agco was negligent in getting to the bottom of it asap, like it is not important to them
What is appalling is that apparently phone pics were sent to the director at AGCO and yet this guy is still racing and claiming. What is more ridiculous is that AGCO is funded by taxpayers dollars and yet all rulings and decisions are behind closed doors and no reasoning for their decisions are made public.
This harness game, being based FAR OUTSIDE OF TORONTO these days, saves so many bad asses, because soft leftwing media who could really use a killer scoop, types are out of range..social media keeners, who could REALLY hurt this game for horse drug and physical abuse, are only around toronto too....towns like dundas, london, barrie, sarnia, peterborough, dresden etc. just far enough away from a concentrated and very damaging reveal. (and with the santa anita national media death count continuing,can a canada story be far behind)And sadly, so many good humans involved in game too being dragged into this kind of shame.Ill ask here: on a scale of 10, horseploppers...l eave the horrific drugging stories out this time around....is animal cruelty a factor in day to day harness horse operations?either youve witnessed, heard about and/or sadly, participated in to get a 'better horse focus or result'.?Is it acceptable in todays fading game? Is slugging a horse in the head a 'legit' way to get its attention next time?I remember hearing about 35 yrs back from an oldtimer of a southwest ontario harness operation beating a horse, wearing a blanket, with a hockey stick (dont know how many times or where- but in an attempt to get the steed to be more 'attentive' next time..or else)Is this kinda thing still in none, few, some or many operations today?Just asking, cause if the game we love is not careful, some leftwing media/social media side of things, who really hate doug ford and the conservative harness racing buyoff$$ of rural voters, might not mind making the drive out to the noted town(s) and end up paying some hidden camera visits to a track or backstretch or farm op like they have chicken farms, slaughterhouses, etc. WE MUST CLEAN THIS SIDE OF THINGS UP....and about drugging horses...ok, next time
A cosa director Boughton represented him