{"id":754998,"date":"2018-10-16T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754998"},"modified":"2018-10-16T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:25:18","slug":"harness-racing-driver-viciously-whips-horse-after-race-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754998","title":{"rendered":"Harness Racing Driver Viciously Whips Horse AFTER Race Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Since 2011, he has been penalized for multiple infractions at racetracks in at least four states. He\u2019s been suspended at least four times and fined at least 30 times for excessive whipping.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Video footage has surfaced showing a harness racing driver viciously whipping a horse named Donna\u2019s Beach well after she\u2019d crossed the finish line during a July 26 race at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Illinois&#8230; In the race replay video footage taken directly from Hawthorne Race Course\u2019s website, Kyle Husted \u2014 who is Donna\u2019s Beach\u2019s trainer and driver \u2014 struck her with a whip at least three times, the first time 18 seconds after she\u2019d finished the race in second place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The act appears to have been a punishment, and the Illinois Racing Board itself recognized it as \u201cexcessive and abusive.\u201d The incident appears to violate Illinois\u2019 cruelty-to-animals statutes, which state, \u201cNo person \u2026 may beat, cruelly treat, torment, starve, overwork or otherwise abuse any animal&#8221;&#8230; Since 2011, Husted has been penalized for multiple infractions at racetracks in at least four states. He\u2019s been suspended at least four times and fined at least 30 times for excessive whipping&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/video-harness-racing-driver-viciously-whips-horse-after-race-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iWMbvRypX0E?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;Video footage has surfaced showing a harness racing driver viciously whipping a horse named Donna\u2019s Beach well after she\u2019d crossed the finish line during a July 26 race at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Illinois&#8230; In the race replay video footage taken directly from Hawthorne Race Course\u2019s website, Kyle Husted \u2014 who is Donna\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[27,28,35],"class_list":["post-754998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755000,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754998\/revisions\/755000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}