Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Deaths at Tracks Put Horse Racing Under Scrutiny

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Saturday is the 151st running of the Belmont Stakes in New York, a competition between the country’s best 3-year-old thoroughbreds, and the last of the three races in the Triple Crown. Organizers of Saturday’s race are hoping to avoid the controversy that dogged this year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, the first two races in the series. Judges disqualified the winner of the Kentucky Derby, Maximum Security, for straying into the path of another horse, a violation of the...

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