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Los Angeles – Please see the next assertion from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo relating to a California decide’s order to disqualify Justify from his win within the 2018 Santa Anita Derby:
Justice was gradual, however the court docket has ultimately come down on the aspect of the horses’ and ordered Justify’s win within the 2018 Santa Anita Derby to be put aside. It might’t finish right here. Justify examined constructive for a banned substance and should be stripped of his Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown titles. He wouldn’t have certified for the Derby had California officers acted correctly and thus would by no means have gained the Triple Crown. Bob Baffert should not sweep doping underneath the rug with flimsy excuses, and the business should take accountability for shielding all Thoroughbreds always.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to make use of for leisure or abuse in some other method”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
