Churchill Downs CEO agrees to meeting with PETA

June 20, 2008

Churchill CEO agrees to meeting with PETA Posted: June 19, 2008 02:32 PM CDT Updated: June 19, 2008 02:38 PM CDT Churchill CEO says he's open to meeting with PETA Bob Evans , Churchill Downs, Inc. CEO Lindsay Rajt, PETA Rajt and Evans talking during a break in the shareholders meeting Most Popular Police report released in road rage shooting WAVE 3 Investigates: Indiana's self-defense law Police: 2 children

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also call for the ban of all drugs, limiting the number or races per season, and ban anyone for life if caught using illegal drugs. The group got a few honks of support, but there were more media reps there than protesters. Meanwhile inside Churchill Downs, shareholders attended their annual meeting. One of the shareholders was another PETA member, Lindsay Rajt of Louisville. The group bought 80 shares of the company's stock to get in front of the CEO, but first he addressed the group on the tragedy. "The records aren't perfect, but we believe this is the only time in the 134-year history of the Kentucky Derby that any horse has ever suffered a fatal accident," said Bob Evans, CEO of Churchill Downs, Inc. "But frankly even one time is one time too many." Once in front of him, Rajt declined to go into specifics and instead asked him for a sit-down meeting with PETA's president, whom she calls the decision

maker. "Why not?" Evans told reporters afterwards. "I talk to all sorts of people all the time." There isn't a date yet, but both parties agreed to meet. In other business at the meeting, Evans announced that revenue for Churchill Downs, Inc. is up. http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join http://www.myspace.com/fortheanimals7