The Preakness is set to go off amid a brawl over its track and intense scrutiny over California horse deaths.
Blofeld, who won nearly $800,000 as a racehorse, is now is available for stud services at Murmur Farm in Darlington, Md. By Fredrick Kunkle Fredrick Kunkle Reporter covering the experience of travel Email Bio Follow May 16 at 6:45 PM DARLINGTON, Md. — Blofeld, having capably performed his duties as a stud, seemed to be in a fine mood as he loafed around his paddock.
But Saturday’s Preakness, one of the jewels of the Triple Crown, also comes as one of the country’s oldest sports faces serious threats to its survival. The deaths of 23 horses at Santa Anita Park in California in recent months have renewed calls for reform, including banning the use of whips and certain medications used on race horses.
“It’s demolition by neglect,” Del. Nick J. Mosby said. He said Stronach has starved Pimlico and lavished millions on Laurel such that a move had become inevitable. The city’s court documents say that the company has spent $89 million at Laurel since 2011, compared with $23 million on Pimlico. Pimlico now has 12 days of live racing each year; Laurel has 168. There also are about 50 workers employed by trainers who are housed at Pimlico, and about 260 at Laurel, Stronach said.
“How many race tracks can the state support?” said state Sen. Pamela G. Beidle , a co-sponsor of a measure that would have directed as much as $120 million toward renovations for Laurel and the Bowie Race Course Training Center. She said Mosby and others had transformed a debate over simple economics into something “nasty.”
“If you’re weighing and balancing the two facilities and their proximity to population centers, the Laurel track seems to have a greater and more realistic future,” Rifkin said. “But the decision has not been made. Raising the question about the future is not the same as answering the question.”By any measure, horse racing’s popularity has been in decline for years, with only about half as many races as just a few decades ago.
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