greyhound racing: 5 dogs injured in 2 AZ tracks – April 24, 2008
Two years ago today – April 24, 2008, Air Page had a career ending injury. According to Greyhound Data, this dog raced 238 times from May 8, 2004 to April 24, 2008. #*&%! That is a damn crime!
In all these races, she only had 35 wins and placed second 29 times. Air Page was not a big winner but for whatever unknown reason, nobody would let her stop racing.
According to the Greyhound Data page, comments allude to her struggling in her races since at least January.
The Greyhound Data is so detailed yet nobody or nothing says what happened to this dog.
This is a big problem. Greyhound Data is minutely detailed while the dog is racing but once they stop — POOF! — whereabouts of dogs become unable to track. I don’t know how the pro racing contingent can say that their adoption rate is 90 percent unless they have a secret ledger somewhere that they’re not showing to the skeptical public. How about some transparency?
Did anyone adopt Air Page or did she race until her death?
The night that ended Air Page’s racing career, Phat Az Carmen was the winner. Carmen shows up on the 2008 injury report twice, once in May as lame and once in July with a pulled muscle. Then what happens?
Almost 2 years later, Carmen gets adopted. What happened to poor Carmen in the interim?
Also on April 24, 2008, two more dogs were injured at Phoenix Greyhound Park and two more dogs at Tucson Greyhound Park. One night, two tracks, five dogs and five injuries. Do the math: It’s five too many.