Horse racing watchdog works to improve safety, end doping | 60 Minutes

It would be refreshing and less one sided if the tv news would ever cover all the honest hard working humans involved who truly love horses.

This has been going on too long and the racing industry has turned a blind eye. The only difference between horse racing and the baseball steroid scandal is the players had a choice. These SOB's were entrusted with the health and care of the horses. Significant fines and long-term jail sentences are the only way to fix this. Include the owners, industry exec's and the trainers. They are all complicit.

Quit racing 2 year olds! They’re bred for speed and not durability. Bones do NOT mature at a faster rate no matter the breeding.

This whole sport is extremely cruel. How can you race horses that are so young? Their bones and hearts are going to break. Equivalent of asking todlers to run races for money. Horrid!

As a die hard racing fan PLEASE clean this up !!! Noone wants a horse to suffer over STUPID MONEY !!!

If this is going on at the pretentious tracks and races, what is taking place at the low end racing circuit, I would imagine the issue is more pervasive. This is very disturbing and exploiting these beautiful horse. National reform must be implemented immediately. These tape recording are horrific. Such trainers should be banned for life. Period!

Ban the Drugs and Doping thats it, if a trainer does anything like that. Ban them for life. That is why you have to treat equine athletes with respect. Also safety needs to be improved and weather could be the factor with the surfaces. Rules need to be changed.

No one talks of the owners. In my Father's Day Horse Racing was the Number 1 Sport in America. In that time, most of the owners made their money elsewhere. They were horse people. They didn't need their horses to make money. That was the Sport of Kings. I used to work at Belmont Park. The Trainers work for the Owners. More attention needs to be put on the type of owners Horse Racing is attracting! Want to place a bet on the Trifecta? The order of finish are the Owners, the Breeding, and the Trainers-Vets-Drugs. And Yes, people in the industry, Do Love the Thoroughbred Racehorse! - To see a Thoroughbred Racehorse, up-close, is an extreme example of a living piece of art!

For the love of God, please END this cruel "sport".

Lot of this comes from greedy owners. They will insist the trainer do what ever it takes to win.

When I met my husband I had never heard ofharness racing. His family had a few horses. My children were literally raised at Lebanon raceway, Ohio . My husband loved, still somewhat loves the sport. He knew everything about every horse entered. We really started noticing a few years back the the books were useless. You were better off watching which driver watched the board the hardest. Unless you were privy the barn bets you may as well have just thrown your money out on the track!! It breaks my heart to see the disappointment in my husband's face as more and more evidence come out. We used to go to all the fairs races, , all of his 8 siblings brought their kids. We would spend all the days there. They stole that from us, from many families. I hope they also get he owner's, Virgil Morgan, he never cared to hide the fact he was juicing. Idk, I'm going to put my money on a horse named KARMA-I hope she gets you all. You're nothing but thieves, you have taken enough of my hard earned money!!

How about $50,000 fines instead of a few thousand??? How about going after the veterinarians supplying the drugs???

It's about damn time! HISA is horse racing's last prayer. They have to start issuing " lifetime " bans on trainer's caught the 3'rd time for giving horse's illegal dope. Bob Baffert has had 31 illegal drug violations against him. 31 times! Todd Pletcher has had illegal drug violations, he will fight it in court, get it laid over and over, until it's thrown out. I'm a horse racing fan for over 50 year's, and I'm sick and tired of the cheating. Stop smacking guilty trainers on the hand by fining them $5,000 in a race worth $1 million dollar's! Ban bad trainer's for life. Tell the crybaby owner's they can get on board and support HiSA, or they can cry on the sidelines. HISA can be what saves horse racing in America, if, it doesn't get watered down, and starts banning cheating trainer's like Bob Baffert for life from ever training another horse again.

Its odd That this segment hasn't been seen on tv yet...but good for 60 minutes for doing a report on horse racing...

I have a uncle in Santa Barbra, California who has horses and helps other people in the area with their horses. This has been a very long time coming. As most people don't seem to really care about the horses. Thank you.

And this didn’t address all the other things that are wrong with this industry. The nursemare situation is atrocious

😢😢😢This is a DISGUSTING Sport!! I can't believe this is still happening! Have you seen the way they stall the horses...and how they get treated and whipped and forced under saddle? I Really despise this Sport!

Doping has been a problem for a very long time. Sir Barton, the very first Triple Crown winner in 1919, was known to be a "hop" horse. Bedwell, his trainer, was known to be a trainer who would use "any means" to win. Even with "help", Sir Barton couldn't take Man O' War. So... And the Janney's are top notch folks. Been around racing a very long time. I hope to see more on this. I've been a horse racing nut since I was 5 and saw Chateaugay win the Derby in 61. I want to see the sport "clean"!

Doping is horrible but the sad reality is greed. What needs to happen is not start these horses before the age of three. Horses need to be allowed to grow up. Injuries happen from many causes, but most often of probably since their growth plates have not been able to grow and mature. It’s not the track, their bones and muscular skeleton We have a baby in our barn who is three years old and she is still not finished growing. She’s going to start under saddle around 4 years and then start being ridden at age 5. Look at the rear hips of these racing horses. If they are still higher than their back and withers, that means they have not fully grown.

.... I never realized how prevalent this problem is .... Someone I know very well - became an equine vet with the sole ambition of working with these animals .... Then became so disturbed by the practice that she opted out completely.