ARCADIA, Calif. -- A horse broke down in the last race at Santa Anita on Wednesday, the track's first racing death of the winter-spring meet after a spate of …
Jun 26, 2019 · Thirty horses have suffered this fate since Dec. 26 at Santa Anita, a storied racetrack that became a flash point this year for activists who want to ban the sport altogether. [For more Sports...
Sep 09, 2021 · Santa Anita to reopen downhill turf course for first time since 2019. Medina Spirit, right and jockey Abel Cedillo, right, hold off Roman Centurian, ridden by …
May 28, 2019 · Governor Gavin Newsom has thrown his support behind a bill that would give the racing board the authority to shut down racetracks on short notice.. All told, 39 horses died at Santa Anita in the ...
The California Race Track has developed a negative reputation after seeing 37 horses die in 2019.Dec 7, 2021
Santa Anita had 24 and 16 deaths during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, respectively. That's down from 49 deaths in 2018-19 and from a high of 71 in 2011-12, the track's worst year from 1997 to 2021.Mar 14, 2022
The composition of synthetic tracks is meant to make for a more consistent and safer racing surface than standard dirt tracks. Based on the numbers, dirt tracks cause the highest rate of death for racehorses, at some points nearing a full two deaths per 1,000 starts.Oct 30, 2019
Between 700 and 800 racehorses are injured and die every year, with a national average of about two breakdowns for every 1,000 starts. According to The Jockey Club's Equine Injury Database, nearly 10 horses died every week at American racetracks in 2018.
In the calendar year 2021, 19 racehorses at Santa Anita have died from racing or training injuries or other causes. The track reported 20 such deaths in 2020. Those numbers represent an improvement over previous years.Nov 2, 2021
As many as 26 horses died in 2019 and 2020 while racing or training at Churchill Downs.Jan 20, 2021
And in a “Message to Stakeholders of the California Horseracing Industry” dated July 2, Frank blamed the racehorse fatalities at Santa Anita directly on two issues: overmedication and the lack of a proper foundation for the track.Oct 27, 2019
Ms. Stronach said that unsavory trainers and owners contributed to the deaths. A special panel of veterinarians and racing officials rejected 38 horses as unfit to run over the final six days of racing here, according to the California Horse Racing Board.Jun 26, 2019
The CHRB report released Tuesday determined that 21 of the 23 horses that died in the 2018-19 meet "had evidence of pre-existing pathology at the site of their fatal injury based on gross pathology." It also found that 19 of the 22 "catastrophic musculoskeletal injuries" involved "proximal sesamoid bone fractures," or ...Mar 10, 2020
Horses need to put some weight on their injured leg to ensure it recovers the necessary strength to support itself. If a horse can't move around and use its other legs, laminitis or abscesses may develop, When this occurs the horse will have to be euthanized.Apr 9, 2022
Santa Anita had 37 racing and training deaths during the 2018-2019 racing year.Dec 16, 2020
The sport of horse racing isn't dying, but it's been on life-support. In 2020 the horse racing industry lost over five billion dollars compared to prior years, and its popularity declined. But the dwindling interest doesn't mean it's dying; people still bet and watch horses racing in great numbers.Jun 17, 2021
On a recent Monday, after one of the rare weekends when Santa Anita conducted three days of racing without a horse fatality, Ms. Stronach sat in her empty racetrack and talked about the aggressive, wide-ranging drug and safety protocols she had demanded.
The family patriarch, Frank Stronach, is a Canadian auto-parts billionaire who has invested much of his fortune in breeding and owning thoroughbreds and acquiring showpiece racetracks, even as interest in the sport has declined. He bought Santa Anita for $126 million in 1998.
Eskenforadrink had sustained a fracture to her right front fetlock. She was put down, becoming the 20th horse to die at Santa Anita Park since the previous December. Her death was particularly discouraging. Just days earlier, a specialist had examined the track and declared it “100 percent ready.”. Image.
On March 2, Eskenforadrink, a 4-year-old thoroughbred, arrived on the Santa Anita racetrack to an air of expectation. She was favored to win the third race of the day, one that came with a $22,000 purse. She was slow out of the starting gate, but took the lead on the first turn of an oval muddied by rain.
The situation called for Dennis Moore, an expert on racing surfaces with more than four decades of experience. He is the track superintendent at both the Del Mar and Los Alamitos courses. Until December, he also worked at Santa Anita. Mr. Moore, 69, was a renowned track man.
Credit... David McNew/Getty Images. In 2010, Santa Anita became one of several prominent tracks to abandon synthetic race tracks made of sand, rubber and silica after a short-lived experiment.
Official website. Santa Anita Park is a Thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent horse racing events in the United States during early fall, winter and in spring.
In 1933, California legalized parimutuel wagering and several investor groups worked to open racetracks. In the San Francisco area, a group headed by Dr. Charles H "Doc" Strub was having trouble locating a site. In the Los Angeles area, a group headed by movie producer Hal Roach was in need of further funds. These two groups combined and the newly formed Los Angeles Turf Club opened the present day track on Christmas Day in 1934, making it the first formally-established racetrack in California. Architect Gordon Kaufmann designed its various buildings in a combination of Colonial Revival and a type of art deco known as Streamline Modern, painted primarily in Santa Anita's signature colors of Persian Green and Chiffon Yellow.
In 2000, the racetrack was named to America's "Most Endangered Historic Places" list. The Santa Anita Racetrack was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, but continued to be threatened by developer's plans. A themed entertainment complex proposal was aborted, but there were new plans are in the works for the parking and support areas adjacent to the historic race track and grandstands.