Suffolk Downs in the news for a good thing

Suffolk Downs just became the first track in the country to ban sale of thoroughbreds for slaughter right off the track because of the inhumane conditions en route to and at the slaughterhouses.  Full story in this Globe article, which includes some grisly details (though at least the online article doesn't include the photo of hanging carcasses that the print edition saw fit to include).  It makes me all the happier to be going to the Mass Cap this Saturday--in fact according to the article, trainer Nick Zito is sending Commentator to the Mass Cap to make a statement in support of this ban.  I don't know about that, as I think the decision to send Commentator there must have been made a while ago, but it's good to have a big trainer expressing support of the track's policy.  And it's good to read about a trainer like Lorita Lindemann, the trainer featured in the Globe story, who has been working at the lower end of the industry to try to remedy its wrongs.  I know those wrongs are still plentiful, but one way to right them is to support tracks that are working on making things better.