# @usatodaysports on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtUiYVnp3a0
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-10T19:03:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) — https://gondola.cc/usatodaysports

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Patrick Battuello, a prominent activist calling for the abolishment of horse racing, estimates 2,000 race horses die a year – during races, during training and resting in stalls.

Unlike Battuelo, the Jockey Club, a non-profit founded by horsemen that tracks death rates, does not count deaths that occur in training or when the horse is found dead in its stall.

Mike Repole, owner of Forte, who’s running in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, said the focus on deaths has detracted from the beauty of racing and undermined the sport.

“If the NFL handled their concussions and the other things they have going on the way horse racing is handling this situation, the NFL would have been banned 10 years ago,’’ he said. “There would be no NFL.’

For more on why Horse racing is under intense scrutiny, go to our 🔗 IN BIO.

📷: Jeff Faughender, Courier Journal/USA TODAY Network 

#horseracing #deaths #kentuckyderby #belmontstakes #preaknessstakes

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kentuckyderby, preaknessstakes, horseracing, belmontstakes, deaths

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