ARCADIA, Calif. -- The most critical racing meeting in the 85-year history of Santa Anita racetrack opened Friday amid a swirl of new safety measures, personnel changes and nerves.Thirty horses died at the racetrack in a six-month stretch that ended in late June, so the Stronach Group -- the track'
ARCADIA, Calif. — The most critical racing meeting in the 85-year history of Santa Anita racetrack opened Friday amid a swirl of new safety measures, personnel changes and nerves.
It was the 32nd horse fatality at the famed California racetrack since December, and it came just days after Gov. Gavin Newsom called the deaths a “disgrace.” He warned that horse racing was dangerously close to being out of business in his state. At Belmont Park in New York, home of the Belmont Stakes, there have been seven fatalities because of injuries over the past 18 race days — four in afternoon racing and three in morning training hours. On Friday, the Keeneland fall meet, an elite and highly anticipated race meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, will open amid heightened anxiety after a troubling rash of horse fatalities in its spring meet.
Kathy Guillermo, a senior vice president at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, called on the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to release the findings of a continuing investigation into the horse deaths in California. Guillermo and PETA have been working closely with the Stronach Group and regulators on rule changes.
He was on the panel’s special postentry and preraceday examination list for a race in July at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California, and one in August at Del Mar near San Diego. In New York, the state’s gaming commission said that “nothing has gone wrong” in its safety and medication protocols.
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