Whipped Cream Difficulties

We have previously noted the issues at the troubled Thoroughbred Racing Foundation.

The NYT offers a summary of a report by Dr. Stacey Huntington. Dr. Huntington was hired by the TRF to evaluate the horses under the care of the foundation:

…She was supposed to evaluate more than 1,100 horses but was fired by the T.R.F. group’s board last month after finding that many of the horses were malnourished and neglected — some had died — and that the foundation’s education of caretakers and its oversight of their farms were poor.

(Her report is based on evaluating 860 of the horses.) Continuing:

Huntington’s report says that 98 percent of the horses she examined lacked basic care like dental, vaccination, deworming and farrier care, and that 380 had “less than ideal body condition scores,” according to the T.R.F.’s standards.

It looks like these people got trapped by the economy, and by a desire to take care of more horses then they really could (almost like crazy cat ladies, but on a much larger scale). But the NYT also makes it look like the TRF is still in denial that it has problems, while at the same time hoping for someone to bail them out.