Plaintiff Chrissy Laughlin, the founder of an equine welfare organization that protects the rights and well-being of racehorses in the Caribbean, has filed a motion asking Puerto Rico's horse racing administrative tribunal to reverse a ruling it made earlier this month that denied her organization access to evidence related to a complaint about the demise and euthanization of the racemare Kayseri in 2025 at Camarero Race Track.Laughlin, according to an Apr. 23 press release issued by Caribbean Equine Advocacy, is also seeking to stay an adjudicative hearing in the matter scheduled for Apr. 28 and 29.The motion seeks “full review of the Apr. 8 ruling; substantive reconsideration of what was denied and why; and restored access to the categories of evidence essential to the plaintiff's case against each respondent before the merits hearing proceeds.”On June 10, 2025, Laughlin detailed the plight of the Kentucky-bred Kayseri in a letter published by TDN.Kayseri had raced at Woodbine and Gulfstream between 2019 and 2021. Eased in her final Florida start June 3, 2021, she was then shipped to race at Camarero for parts of three seasons.“On Jan. 9, 2025, a Thoroughbred mare named Kayseri was euthanized in Puerto Rico,” Laughlin wrote in her TDN letter last year. “She had no joint space left in her fetlocks. Her body was broken down from overuse, her mind likely exhausted from pain and confinement. Her death is not only a tragedy–it is the subject of three formal complaints now filed against the Puerto Rico Racing Commission, the track veterinarians, and her final owner.”The Caribbean Equine Advocacy's press release from last week updated the organization's recent attempts to hold both individuals and regulators accountable for Kayseri's welfare.“Her deterioration was documented, flagged, and ultimately ignored across multiple layers of the racing system,” the release stated. “The plaintiff's Amended Consolidated Complaint details how each respondent contributed to that systemic failure.”The release continued: “The litigation names five distinct respondents–the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission, Carlos Ortiz Aponte (operating as Establo Analiján PR), the Confederacion Hípica de Puerto Rico, Equine Associates (owned and operated by Dr. José Gracia Blanco), and Dr. Federico Arbona–each bearing independent legal duties toward Kayseri, and each of whom the plaintiff contends failed her in different but compounding ways.”The Caribbean Equine Advocacy's allegations represent only one side of the story. The respondents could not be reached for comment prior to publication of this article.Laughlin, via the press release, said that the tribunal's denial of the documentation her organization had requested “is not a procedural inconvenience: it is a civil rights violation that simultaneously insulates every respondent in a multi-party case from scrutiny. That multi-party scope is central to understanding the significance of the discovery denial. Without this evidence, all five respondents can deny liability and the record will contain nothing to contradict them.And, Laughlin contended, “This [denial of discovery] ruling does not just harm our case–it immunizes every respondent simultaneously. The Commission, the owner, the Confederacion, both veterinary practices–all of them benefit from a record that has been stripped of evidence before a single witness takes the stand. That is not an administrative proceeding. That is a predetermined outcome.”Beyond the individual facts, the release stated, “the Kayseri litigation exposes a systemic vulnerability in Puerto Rico's equine regulatory framework: when an owner, a regulator, a governing body, and two independent veterinary practices all fail the same animal–and then collectively resist disclosure–the administrative system must decide whose interests it serves. The plaintiff contends that the tribunal's Apr. 8 ruling answered that question in the wrong direction. The Motion for Review is an opportunity to correct it.”The post Caribbean Equine Advocacy Group Alleges Stonewalling in Puerto Rico Welfare Case appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.