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Horse Racing: Running to Death is Not a Sport!

FROM Phyllis Dougherty
February 2023

A total of “Twelve racehorses died at Santa Anita in 2022,” according to the same report. However, Santa Anita officials boast that they “have made major improvements in horse safety after 2019, when 42 horses died at the track.”

[Article was originally published on CityWatchLA and is reprinted here with permission.]

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On January 31, 2023, CBS News, announced Another horse dies during training at Santa Anita Park and reported that Actuator, a 4-year-old colt “died suddenly while training at Santa Anita Park, the second fatality at the Arcadia track this year.” In his short—but stressful—life, Actuator had won seven races and two first-place finishes, all out of state, according to the industry website Equibase.

On January 20, Press On, another 4-year-old colt, died from a “training injury” at Santa Anita.

A total of “Twelve racehorses died at Santa Anita in 2022,” according to the same report. However, Santa Anita officials boast that they “have made major improvements in horse safety after 2019, when 42 horses died at the track.”

CBS comments in “Horse Dies from Training Injury at Santa Anita,” that this is “sparking widespread debate about safety issues at Santa Anita and about horse racing in general.”

Following are some of the similar tragedies during 2022:

2022 RACEHORSE DEATHS

Cyclone Slew Is the 58th Racehorse To Die in California in 2022

On November 30, 2022, Olivia Cruz Mayeda, of the San Francisco Standard,wrote, “Horse racing has a problem: The horses keep dying.”

“Last Friday, Cyclone Slew became the 58th racehorse in California to die in 2022,” she said, “The 4-year-old thoroughbred was also the 13th horse to die at Berkeley racetrack Golden Gate Fields in 2022.”

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