Santa Anita Park will not heed the California Horse Racing Board's recommendation to suspend racing in the wake of two more horse deaths over the weekend.
Santa Anita Park will not heed the California Horse Racing Board's recommendation to suspend racing in the wake of two more horse deaths over the weekend because the reforms that were enacted earlier in the year appear to be effective, according to a spokesman.
After the reforms took place, the park saw up to seven weeks of"clean racing," Stefan Friedman, spokesman for The Stronach Group, a company that owns the park, told ABC News. In addition, the track has seen 50% fewer catastrophic breakdowns during racing and 84% fewer catastrophic incidents during training, Friedman said.
"It is our understanding that Santa Anita management, after consultation with certain other industry stakeholders, believes that for a variety of reasons, the future of California racing is best served by continuing to race," the California Horse Racing Board said in a statement over the weekend. Friedman described the most recent horse deaths as"really devastating," adding that the decision to continue racing"was not made lightly." The park and the California Horse Racing Board have a"really good relationship," Friedman added.
"The reason that we take that perspective is that the broken bones in California are happening all over the country," Guillermo said, referring to horse injuries.
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