Ett tragiskt \u00f6de som f\u00f6r\u00e4ndrade en hel industri. Ja, ingen undgick v\u00e4l stoet Eight Belles hemska olycka strax efter m\u00e5lg\u00e5ngen som tv\u00e5a bakom Big Brown i \u00e5rets Kentucky Derby. H\u00e4ndelsen fick enorm uppm\u00e4rksamhet l\u00e5ngt utanf\u00f6r galoppsportens vanliga mediakanaler, bl a i New York Times, Wall Street Journal och Los Angeles Times. Nu har facktidningen Thoroughbred Times utn\u00e4mnt h\u00e4ndelsen till ”Newsmaker of the Year”. Ett t\u00e4mligen givet val om man t\u00e4nker efter.<\/p>\n
Eight Belles dog kanske inte helt f\u00f6rg\u00e4ves. Stoets \u00f6de kommer antagligen att r\u00e4dda livet m\u00e5nga h\u00e4star fram\u00f6ver. F\u00f6r nu har man verkligen tagit krafttag f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttra djurskyddet i USA. N\u00e5got som naturligtvis borde gjorts f\u00f6r l\u00e4nge sedan. F\u00f6rbud mot steroider och en l\u00e5ng rad andra medicineringar inf\u00f6rs, dittrackbanor byts ut mot modernare konstmaterial och reglerna f\u00f6r sp\u00f6bruk sk\u00e4rps. Noterbart \u00e4r att det faktiskt inte enbart handlar om djurskydd. Hur publiken uppfattar sporten \u00e4r enormt viktig f\u00f6r galoppens \u00f6verlevnad. The Thoroughbred Safety Committees ordf\u00f6rande Stuart Janney yttrycker det h\u00e4r p\u00e5 ett bra s\u00e4tt:<\/p>\n
”I think that what this committee’s responsibility comes down to is not only taking the steps that we believe are necessary to safeguard the horse and rider, but also to create the conditions and practices within this industry that will allow it to grow and prosper to the casual fan.”<\/em><\/p>\n \u00c4ven i Sverige har vi dessv\u00e4rre haft en v\u00e4ldigt olycksdrabbad s\u00e4song. L\u00e4gg d\u00e4rtill TV4s granskning av djurskyddet i svensk travsport och den efterf\u00f6ljande ”Svanstedt-aff\u00e4ren”. Det inte sv\u00e5rt att se att det finns en hel del att ta tag i \u00e4ven p\u00e5 hemmaplan. Svensk galoppsport \u00e4r tyv\u00e4rr inte undantagen.<\/p>\n > L\u00e4s mer p\u00e5 Thoroughbred Times<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ett tragiskt \u00f6de som f\u00f6r\u00e4ndrade en hel industri. Ja, ingen undgick v\u00e4l stoet Eight Belles hemska olycka strax efter m\u00e5lg\u00e5ngen som tv\u00e5a bakom Big Brown i \u00e5rets Kentucky Derby. H\u00e4ndelsen fick enorm uppm\u00e4rksamhet l\u00e5ngt utanf\u00f6r galoppsportens vanliga mediakanaler, bl a i New York Times, Wall Street Journal och Los Angeles Times. Nu har facktidningen Thoroughbred … Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201d”Eight” Was Enough\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[25,26,17],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse","category-internationellt","tag-djurskydd","tag-doping","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}