Gambling On Health Care

While only a small percentage of you are involved in the industries that have legalized gambling, many of you live in states with legalized racing, and all of you benefit from those industries. A tremendous number of the research projects from around the world that have shed new light on diseases and injuries have been funded by horse racing dollars from tracks and simulcast facilities.

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While only a small percentage of you are involved in the industries that have legalized gambling, many of you live in states with legalized racing, and all of you benefit from those industries. A tremendous number of the research projects from around the world that have shed new light on diseases and injuries have been funded by horse racing dollars from tracks and simulcast facilities. However, even if you never before gave one moment’s thought to that tie between your healthy horse and racing, you might be required to do so in the near future. You see, the racing industry is being besieged by non-horse gambling, such as slots, casinos, and riverboat gaming facilities. That means fewer dollars spent on racing, and fewer dollars available to fund research. It’s time to stand up for our horses.

The Grayson/Jockey Club Research Foundation is the largest single contributor to equine research in the country. While it is rooted in the Thoroughbred industry, the research funded by the nearly $10 million in donations during the past two decades has helped every horse. That research has looked at everything from EPM to internal parasites, arthritis to surgical techniques.

Other major players in funding equine research are the Morris Animal Foundation and the Quarter Horse Foundation. Sometimes these three groups (and others, such as the American Association of Equine Pracitioners Foundation) will cooperate to support research.

We should all give a big thanks to those groups and the many small and large donations by private individuals. But it’s also time for us to give something else–our support

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Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

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