A Run Of Bad Luck

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When singer Ray Charles lamented that “if it wasn’t for bad luck . . . I wouldn’t have no luck at all,” he wasn’t singing about Luck, HBO’s ill-fated series about Thoroughbred racing–but he could have been. Dogged by criticism from racing fans who felt the series painted the sport in an unflattering light, too few viewers, and the deaths of three horses, HBO and executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann finally gave up.

Production on the series was halted for a time when two horses were destroyed after breaking down during filming of race sequences. Then on March 14, Luck was canceled for good when a third horse was euthanized after suffering serious injuries in a fall on the Santa Anita backstretch.

Two days before the cancellation was announced, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) weighed in. PETA has been a critic of Luck almost from the start, and in a letter dated March 12 the PETA Foundation contacted Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, requesting a criminal investigation into the deaths of the first two horses

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