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Joe Pitts: “I think first and foremost about the welfare of human beings that are getting on the backs of those horses, the jockeys…”

On the recordApril 29, 2012
I think first and foremost about the welfare of human beings that are getting on the backs of those horses, the jockeys themselves who are being put into a circumstance in which arguably one might suggest that there is an understanding prior to it on the part of somebody that inappropriately affects a horse that they are putting a human being into an untenable circumstance.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts emphasizes the importance of jockey welfare amid concerns about horse treatment.

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