Another racehorse died Sunday at California’s Santa Anita Park, elevating the death toll to 23 because of Christmas, officials stated. The life-threatening injury came two days after racing resumed at the thoroughbred music with new regulations to enhance horse protection. The horse that died in Sunday’s race, Arms Runner, suffered fatal damage after colliding with some other horse at a dirt crossing, park officers said in a statement. However, the second horse, La Sardine, walked returned to her barn without an accident, they stated.
“While this incident befell all through a competition on music that has been deemed with the aid of unbiased specialists to be safe, we’re working intently with the California Horse Racing Board to recognize if there was whatever additional that we could have finished to save you today’s tragedy,” park officers said.
The rash of deadly accidents at Santa Anita, approximately 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, started in the past due December. As a result, racing was suspended there on March three. Officials stated they weren’t positive about why many horses broke down. Rules regulating the use of whips and medication were introduced in advance this month.
The advocacy institution People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has called for a criminal investigation of Santa Anita’s running shoes, called the brand new policies a “watershed second”, and urged other race tracks to undertake similar suggestions.
A quick recount of the records of this famous racetrack shows it changed into opened as Arlington Park in 1927 by California businessman Harry D. “Curly” Brown, who later served as president of the Oriental Park Racetrack in Havana, Cuba. In the next three long time, the racetrack modified management several times, which turned into also led by Benjamin F. Lindheimer, who is well remembered for selling the 1955 whole race broadcast via CBS television in which Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Nashua defeated the Kentucky Derby winner Swaps. Hall of Fame instructor Jimmy Jones of Calumet Farms endorsed Lindheimer because he was the savior of Chicago racing and Arlington Park as one of the greatest racetracks he had ever been – as quoted via Sports Illustrated.
In the mid-1980s, the racetrack was obtained by Richard L. Duchosis’s led funding organization with a pledge to give global champion races, which were damaged when a hearth broke out, destroying the grandstands and clubhouse. Following the accident, the Arlington Million occurred at Hawthorne Race Course for a while before the racetrack opened in 1989. Finally, in September 2000, Churchill Downs Incorporated finished acquiring Arlington Park.
Arlington Park has drawn interest in the races and its association with people from the media and enjoyment. It has been associated with famous TV personalities like Caton Bredar and Lynne Snierson from the 1980s through the 1990s and Jessica Pacheco and Alyssa Ali in the greater present times. Arlington Park has been a pleasant place for the past couple of years. Live performances and concerts from American Idol contestants in consecutive years in 2010 and 2011 drew a big fan base and supporters.
