Breaking information: Right this moment New York State Police arrested harness racing coach Frederick Bourgault for allegedly beating a horse named End Line so violently that he needed to be euthanized. Bourgault was charged with two felonies: interference with or damage to sure home animals and prison mischief within the second diploma.

The incident reportedly passed off in mid-July 2023 at Pine Bush Coaching Facility in Pine Bush, New York. PETA was knowledgeable of the alleged beating by former coach Mike Petrelli and instantly contacted the police.

End Line’s physique, which had been buried on the coaching facility’s property, was exhumed and despatched to a laboratory for a necropsy.

The Violent Monitor Report of Coach Frederick Bourgault

Bourgault, who has skilled horses compelled to race at Tioga Downs and Monticello Raceway, was suspended in 2020 by the Alcohol and Gaming Fee of Ontario in Canada for beating a horse who had positioned fifth in a race. He has a protracted historical past of violations in New York state and has been fined and/or suspended for kicking horses and for extreme use of the whip.

In 2022, the New York State Gaming Fee fined Bourgault for whipping a horse after a race and directed him to take an anger administration course. In April 2023, Bourgault was once more fined for extreme whipping.

Frederick Bourgault is a repeat offender who ought to have been booted from racing years in the past, the primary time he whipped a horse after a race was over.

—PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo

PETA questions why the gaming fee and tracks have allowed Bourgault, together with his documented historical past of violence and violations, to proceed racing and why New York taxpayers are compelled to help the harness racing business with $100 million in subsidies yearly.

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