One Thing: Is Horse Racing on Its Last Legs?

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ahead of this year’s Kentucky Derby, horse racing critics are asking familiar questions about animal safety and care in an industry fueled by gambling. We examine how high-profile horse deaths and an FBI investigation into doping allegations have pushed the sport towards reforms. Guest: Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Senior Reporter & Author, “Death of a Racehorse: An American Story” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:47.0	Conditions apply. The Kentucky Derby is on Saturday, horse racing's marquee event. One of the horses running is actually named journalism, which is very exciting for this reporter,
0:52.3	but there's a lot to pay attention to here.
0:54.7	Because underneath the gambling and glamorous presentation, every race comes with some grim
1:00.4	possibilities.
1:02.2	At Churchill Downs, home of the Derby, 12 horses died in about a month, leading the facility
1:08.2	to suspend racing operations.
1:10.4	Tonight, another dark turn for Santa
1:12.3	Indiana Park. This was the 34th horse to have died at the historic Arcadia track since the day
1:18.1	after Christmas. It's not just the turf or the surfers they're racing on. There's medication issues.
1:22.8	That's the question now being asked. Were some trainers over-medicating their horses, running them too hard?
1:30.8	A string of high-profile scandals and deaths in recent years has led some people both in and
1:36.3	outside the horse racing community to ask, why are we still doing this?
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