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    Commentary: Horse racing's other moral jam

    by John Tirman, Los Angeles Times Nov 29, 2019 2 minutes

    Politics and sports don't mix well. Just ask Colin Kaepernick. But sometimes politics intrudes on athletic competition in a way that can't be ignored. Thoroughbred racing, already grappling with a terrible track record of horse deaths, is enveloped in yet another political and moral catastrophe that few in the business acknowledge.

    For more than two decades, horse racing has been influenced heavily by

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