Bad conditions. Apparently, global warming is a real beotch.
BTW, the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races was filmed there.
"Get-a you ice cream. Get-a you tutsi-frutsi ice-a cream."
A very Sherlockian mystery. Did all the horses die from stumbles on the muddy track? And, if so, at the same place? In any case, I’d suggest that the track owners have the soil for the entire course examined to a depth of six inches (or however deep a horse’s hoof could go on a muddy track) and see if anything unusual turns up.
Maybe they’re striking a substrate that is the foundation for the covering dirt. Maybe erosion from the rains and years of use have eroded the course’s soil and it needs to be replaced?
It’s hard to comment without knowing what is the average rate of “death” during a season.
I put “death” in quotes because I’m assuming they mean put down.
diseased illegals.
BTW, the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races was filmed there.
"Get-a you ice cream. Get-a you tutsi-frutsi ice-a cream."
Two Kentucky Derby prep races are supposed to be happening there soon — the San Felipe this Saturday and the Santa Anita Derby on April 6 (the same day as the Blue Grass at Keeneland and the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. I’ve been to all three of those parks.)
One of them was a Canadian MP.
I’ve mostly won there LOL and I have a Filipino bud who gave me some really good tips. Heck, I win there more than Pechanga and San Manuel.
And to add, TODAY IS RAINING HARD in L.A. and will continue tomorrow..I think I went back to Vancouver with all this rain.
“Attention all. Can we get a veterinarian and a shotgun?”
The rest of the horses are said to be in stable condition.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8162095@N04/2573694294
That’s so tragic.
Was this the place some detectives found a pond of sulfuric acid the horses were drinking from ?
When I was a young teen in the early ‘60’s, my uncle who lived in La Habra would take me there and we’d stay for the entire card betting on every race. I don’t recall any problems buying tickets at the windows even though I wasn’t more than 15 or 16 at the time. My uncle taught me rudimentary handicapping and one day said that sometimes he just bet on the jockey, not the horse. This particular day he told me he was betting on whatever horse the rookie Laffit Pincay was riding. I think he had six mounts that day and won five of the races and placed in the sixth. Almost all his horses were chalk. I’ll never forget how gorgeous that property was, especially in the winter with the snow-capped mountains in the distance and the clearest blue sky you won’t see today.
The last horse I bet on was so good, it took 10 other horses to beat ‘em.
Supposedly, the training track has no issues, and has the turf track had any deaths? Races are cancelled when the turf gets too much rain.
They should have bought “sea horses” instead.