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A Different Look at Horse Breeding

By Jim Chen at al.

On May 16 the Wall Street Journal featured an article about Jess Jackson and his Stonestreet Stables entitled Horse Racing's Would-Be Savior. Mr. Jackson, "the billionaire founder of the Kendall-Jackson wine empire" has taken on the American thoroughbred horse industry charging that the horses are over-bred, over-medicated, and lacking in durability - criticisms noted in our previous post The Dark Side: Horse Racing. Jackson, a controversial figure in the mainstream thoroughbred community because of his criticisms, not to mention a few lawsuits, is now seeking breeding stock from France, Germany, South Africa and Argentina in his effort to breed durability back into American race horses.

Here is a video of and interview with Jackson on his recent trip to Argentina -

Full post as published by Agricultural Law on May 18, 2008 (boomark / email).