Dear Friend,

If tomorrow is anything like a typical day on racetracks across the U.S., three horses will die before it's over .

While coverage of Saturday's pandemic-delayed Kentucky Derby may focus on the
storied history of the race, most won't hear a peep about the horses pushed to
their breaking point by a racing industry dominated by drugs, deception, and
death. They won't be told about the trainers who rely on performance-enhancing
drugs to mask horses' pain or see the injuries that will put some at risk of
having a fatal breakdown.

No horse should die on any track for someone's idea of entertainment.

Please make a special gift of just $2 or more right now and power PETA's industry-changing work for
horses and other animals.

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Horses are smart, fascinating animals, gentle giants who feel joy, pain, fear,
and all the other emotions that we do and can use symbols to communicate their
desires.

But despite their size, they can be hurt very easily in the racing industry,
which masks undisclosed injuries and health conditions with medications to keep
lame and unfit horses competing. Illegal doping and the use of medication like
Lasix—a diuretic that's routinely administered to horses to make them lighter
and faster by dehydrating them and that also masks other drugs—is rampant
throughout much of racing in the U.S. and Canada, leading to injuries, broken
bones, and an often gruesome death.

Horse racing's dependence on drugs and dishonesty is so widespread that the
trainer of last year's disqualified Kentucky Derby winner, Maximum Security, was
recently indicted along with 26 others for drugging horses. And just last week,
the California Horse Racing Board announced that it would pursue the
disqualification of Justify, a horse who tested positive for a banned substance
in a 2018 qualifying race for the Kentucky Derby before his subsequent Triple
Crown win. If officials had disclosed the failed drug test, Justify could not
have raced in the Derby.

Thankfully, with the support of kind PETA donors, things are beginning to
change. It's been six years since a groundbreaking PETA investigation first blew the
lid off the racing industry's deadly drug problem, and today we are a driving force behind many of the most significant reforms the industry
has ever seen.

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After dozens of horses died at California's Santa Anita Park, we worked with
track owners and state officials to make historic changes to regulations,
banning some of the worst forms of abuse in racing. We've now pushed a coalition
of major U.S. racetracks—including Churchill Downs—to phase out the use of
Lasix. We've also played a major role in California's crackdown on medication
overuse and in increasing donations from bettors to the Thoroughbred Aftercare
Alliance, a racing industry–supported organization—formed after pressure from
PETA—that helps keep horses "retired" from racing from being sent to
slaughterhouses in Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and other countries.

And just a few weeks ago, a first-of-its-kind, PETA-supported racketeering and
fraud lawsuit led to a substantial settlement for a bettor cheated out of his
winnings by a trainer and owner whose long-shot winner of a New Jersey harness
race tested positive for a banned substance. Now, we're making sure that bettors
on tomorrow's race remember this precedent-setting suit's results if there are
failed drug tests. Because the horse was the ultimate victim, the bettor donated
a portion of the settlement to a race horse rescue group at our request.

It's taken years of intense campaigning by PETA to achieve this progress and
more, but until no horse is raced to their breaking point at the Kentucky
Derby—or anywhere else—we MUST do more.

Please don't wait until the next tragic death on the track to act. Give today and help us protect horses and other animals from a lifetime of
exploitation and abuse.

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Kind Regards,

Kathy Guillermo
Senior Vice President
PETA
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