Perspective: 'Horse racing deserves its place in the world, but we must do our best to prove we deserve horse racing.'
Country House, left, was declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby after Maximum Security, third from left, was disqualified. War of Will is second from left and Code of Honor is at right. By Gina Rarick Gina Rarick, an American former journalist, trains racehorses in France. May 15 MAISONS-LAFFITTE, FRANCE — If a sport’s biggest concern is that the competitors come home alive, it can’t have much of a future.
On Derby Day, when the American horses were being readied for the race of their lives by being given an injection of the diuretic Lasix and hand-walked in the confines of a shed row, I was riding with our first set of horses along the tree-lined paths that lead to our training gallops northwest of Paris. The set included our runner for the day, a fractious 4-year-old colt called Prince Parsim, who had an entry later at Longchamp, the premier French track in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne.
Prince was racing a mile and a quarter on soft turf. This was a middle-distance race for us. In the United States, it would be considered a route, or long-distance race. Prince didn’t start his day with an injection or any other sort of medication. In fact, the only medical treatment he had ever been given in the six months I’d had him was a week of ulcer medication when he arrived.
The result has been a fragilization of the animal, a decrease in the longevity of a racing career and an increase in fatal accidents. And a public that says they’ve had enough.
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