Posted on 03/06/2019 4:03:17 PM PST by Libloather
Arcadia, Calif. -- Santa Anita has canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses in the last two-and-a-half months.
Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita, told The Associated Press Tuesday that racing won't be held this weekend, when two major races were scheduled: the San Felipe for 3-year-old Kentucky Derby hopefuls and the Santa Anita Handicap for older horses.
Ritvo wouldn't speculate on when training and racing would resume. After this weekend, races were to be run again starting March 14 at the storied racetrack slated to host the Breeders' Cup world championships for a record 10th time this fall.
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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."
Hopefully this won’t start talk of bringing polytrack back.
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?
One of the FUNNIEST movies ever.
“Here’s your Florida call Mr. Whitmore” :)
But that sounds like a lot of horses. Sad.
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.
The article says that track had it’s soil peeled and replaced to a depth of 5”. Radar revealed nothing unusual in the silt, sand, and clay on the course. The track had a layer of red-brown sand from a beach El Segundo applied in 2014 and that it was reported to have been screened for foreign objects and rocks. A track superintendent for the course that had retired a few years earlier is being called upon as a consultant to help investigate.
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.)
Ten last year, eight the year before, and 14 the year before that , all in the first 2 months of the season.
Yes, the horses are put down, but they are just as dead.
In 2017, 20 deaths occurred among a total of 8,463 starts over a span of 122 racing days at Santa Anita, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Jockey Club.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/santa-anita-suspends-racing-indefinitely-after-21st-horse-dies.amp
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.
My FReepmail account is active, ya know.
“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
LOL!
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