Three more days results in three more dead horses at the Santa Anita Park racetrack in Southern California, which brings the total to a staggering 49 needless deaths since December 2018.
Life-ending injuries continue to plague overworked horses despite an open investigation into the racecourse following a dramatic surge of horse deaths in 2019 and demands for the park to be closed after it ignored a recommendation to suspend racing by the California Horse Racing Board.
In June, Governor Gavin Newsom urged the California Horse Racing Board to shut down the park until the reason for the racetrack’s increased number of horse injuries and deaths could be determined.
“I continue to be troubled by the horse deaths at Santa Anita Park,” Newsom said in a statement. “Enough is enough. I am calling on the California Horse Racing Board to ensure that no horse races until they are examined by independent veterinarians and found fit to compete.”
A spokesman for The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita Park, told ABC News that the company decided to continue racing horses because the safety reforms it had carried out, including a “zero tolerance” policy for the use of most medications on race day, were effective. This is evidently not the case, however, as horse deaths at Santa Anita Park continue to rise.
Three geldings are the latest victims. According to KABC, six-year-old Harliss and five-year-old Uncontainable were put down over the weekend after fracturing their front ankles, and four-year-old Tikkun Olam was euthanized for unrevealed reasons following an accident during training.
It is despicable that Santa Anita Park track is still operating with no regard for the wellbeing of their horses.
Lady Freethinker has garnered over 29,000 signatures to shut down this venue. Thank you to everyone who signed this petition. If you have not done so already, please take a moment to call for Santa Anita Park to close its doors for good, sparing more innocent horses’ lives.
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Stop racing horses where the hell is the humane society
If you love horses donot have anything to do with the horse racing industry, if the horses dont die on the tracks or in the hands of the owners who push them to their death so they have heart attacks, they end up on horrifc live export ships sent to other countries to barbaric slaughter houses when they dont make their owners any money anymore, disgusting
So terrible😢
So terrible😢
Close it down !!!
It’s very hard to keep comments peaceful when every day you hear about such horrific abuse, neglect, suffering that so many animals, needlessly face. It is heartbreaking and the government needs to speak up for the voiceless, show that if inflict abuse, neglect, suffering upon an animal, the same will be done to you.
Horses should not be abused for entertainment and profit!
It’s all about the the money!! They don’t care about the horses! How many deaths will it take before something is done??
All horses in America are at risk for cruelty today, both domestic and wild, all for profit of sick human beings. Stop all horse racing NOW. It is barbaric. Stop killing wild mustangs NOW. It is illegal. Stop selling horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughter houses for foreign meat sales. It is barbaric and uncivilized.
I pray for horses need help and I pray horses racing need shutdown hope
NO OFFICIAL IS DOING ANYTHING OR SPEAKING OUT SO SANTA ANITA IS VERY HAPPY WITH THEMSELVES, DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST: ANIMAL ABUSE ON A TRACK, EVERYDAY. COME BUY YOUR TICKETS AND WATCH ANIMAL ABUSE TO YOUR HORSEY DELIGHT. WE LOVE AND PREFER MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER ANIMALS LIVE. COME ON NOW PUBLIC WE ARE NOT INTO HUMAN TRAFFICKING, WE’RE JUST HAVING FUN MAKING MONEY WITH HORSES. SO WHAT! THEY ARE just ANIMALS. WHAT YA’LL GET EXCITED ABOUT.
Greed, ignorance and lack of compassion are a few characteristics of these clowns and fools who run those poor horses to death and also for those dumb spectators. Instead of concerning themselves with something positive such as climate change, they’d rather place bets on horses or just come for their sick entertainment of watching them run to death.
MORE GREEDY BASTARDS. you gotta blame the spectators too!
This needs to stop now!!!!!!
Close that death hole of a race track..
No more jorse so die there or at any track in this country..Close all of them down..Every last one.
Animal abuse is now a federal offense. Can the feds step in and stop this? What will it take? No animal (except the human ones responsible) deserve this.
No animal should EVER be TREATED this way our courts need to get to get tough with people who ABUSE ANY ANIMAL 😡😡😡😡
These acts of animal abuse and cruelty is an OUTRAGE and must end
These acts of animal abuse and cruelty is an OUTRAGE and must end
Here is what it is about testing facilities. These so called scientist are LEGAL serial killers. To terrify and abuse animals for cosmetics or to further life is appalling. Humans live to LONG!! MOST HIMANS DO EVEN DESERVE TO LIVE! the shuting down is a start! Free all animal from explotation!!!!
How can we allow this to continue in the United States? There is no excuse for this inhumane treatment of horses or any other animal. This is just a product of greed, egoism and a sadistic indifference to the suffering of these incredible creatures. Can’t we do anything without becoming destructive and greedy? This is sick, sick, sick.
Such cruelty!! How many broken legs and death before people realize how wrong this is!!
L’argent transforme les hommes en monstres! Ces courses devraient être interdites tout comme les corridas!!!
It’s ridiculous & a terrible thing, that the racehorses are dying. The race track needs to be shit down. ASAP .It’s obvious that they aren’t being treated right.
You don’t have to be a Philadelphia lawyer to understand there is corruption behind the scenes when the number of equine deaths keeps rising. Horse racing needs to be banned. I pity the poor long suffering horses. They have no voice in any of this and are making the ultimate sacrifice.
The race horses are ‘east come easy go’ the trainers, owners and gamblers just don’t care all they are worried about is money spent on the next victims and if there is enough time to train them.
Hopefully this race track will be shut down and hopefully a time will come when humans do not use animals as entertainment.
Little Frankie Stronach is a punk in every sense of the word. Then he pays DA Jackie Lacey funds to ignore ongoing blatant abuse at the track. Either that or Jackie is totally incompetent, which is likely.
The CHRB is a puppet organization of little punk Frankie.
And where is mayor Sho Tay in all of this??
Some things need to, and will be done now to help correct this problem that our public officials are obviously ignoring.
Time to get to work…..
Money is speaking louder than the health and well being of these horses 🐴🐎. Shame on them 😡😠🤬.
High time this horror show was closed down.
Obviously money means MUCH more to these racetrack owners than life itself. They are evil scum.
That racetrack should have been shut down years ago. Those horses don’t deserve to be killed
constantly like this. Why hasn’t the law done something ? Those racetrack evil scum don’t care
one bit about the welfare of those horses. The only thing they care about is their mega-bucks.
SHUT DOWN THAT RACETRACK !!!!!!!
It is heartbreaking to read about what the race horses go through every day, how there is no regard for their well being and quality of life, and the horrible painful deaths that result from this cruel sport. Horse racing should be banned, there is too much suffering from it.
so who is being paid off here?
When will the killing end, how can these tracks continue to operate?