In addition to another powerful showing (pictures below) from our side yesterday as Santa Anita re-opened for business, there’s this from yesterday’s Portland Monthly: A permit application involving “initial phase redevelopment” of the 63.65-acre parcel that’s home to racetrack Portland…
As Santa Anita readies to re-open this Friday, and the battle there resumes, I give you these truly remarkable and decidedly auspicious (for us) comments from a high-ranking racing official. In a recent interview with FoxLA, Rick Baedeker, executive director…
Not to keep hammering away at this, but the goings-on at Santa Anita are simply too important to let die. As I’ve previously written, what’s happened there is no anomaly; in fact, it’s business as usual. Let’s just look at…
To “distract,” says the American Heritage Dictionary, is “to attract (the attention) away from its original focus; divert.” The original focus regarding Santa Anita was (is) 22 on-track kills since Christmas, 26 dead racehorses overall. The distraction is Lasix, and…
In the wake of the 26th dead racehorse (since Christmas) at Santa Anita yesterday (two broken legs), and faced with an unprecedented media-fueled national outrage, the track’s owner, The Stronach Group, announced, among other things, an immediate ban on raceday…
Santa Anita released its most recent Stewards Minutes today. The report, covering February 25-March 3, lists three more “fatalities.” One we know is Eskenforadrink on March 2; the other two remain unidentified. Of greater significance is this: According to the…
In the wake of 23 dead horses since Christmas, Santa Anita cancelled racing yesterday and is closed indefinitely. But let’s identify this for what it is: marketing-101 damage-control, nothing more, nothing less. After being hammered in the media – practically…
While Santa Anita scrambles to contain its current killing crisis, closing the track Tuesday while, as the Daily News put it, “staff tested the soil to seek environmental factors that could have contributed to the deaths of 19 horses since…
“Our goal is to reduce the number of racehorse deaths and injuries to zero, and we have taken many productive steps toward reaching that goal over the past four years.” – NYS Equine Medical Director Scott Palmer, VMD Midway through…
After conducting what it calls a “thorough investigation,” the Delaware Racing Commission has cleared the man who repeatedly (four times) punched a horse in the head prior to a race at Delaware Park to return to work, saying “no disciplinary…
In advance of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes… The following racehorses have lost their lives at Belmont Park since the Gaming Commission began disclosing such things in 2009. To save you the trouble of counting, there are 389 dead horses on this…
Horseracing in America is a single entity. Saratoga and Sunland, “grand” courses and cheap racinos, Grade 1s and claimers – they’re all one in the same. Accordingly, any bet on any race at any track is a bet for the…
