Jack Ziniuk

Yes, I planned to blog about horse racing today, but changed my mind. I'll do that another day. Like one where I'm not down because every horse I was rooting for last weekend lost.

So instead I'm going to talk about the guy who's case I've been watching the past couple weeks, but haven't reported on.

Well, I have news on that front, but it's not exactly good...

Story The man responsible for the cruel death of his horse was found dead on his property Thursday night. He was to stand trial in October allegedly beating a horse in the head with a sledgehammer. He was going to plead not guilty and according to him, he loved the horse and it was already dead.

The head was decapitated and fed to Ziniuk's dogs because he'd heard that horse meat was what dog food is made out of. To my knowledge, horse meat only goes into a very few brands of dog food these days. Most dog food does not contain horse meat anymore, though it did at some time.