ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Horse races may be ending at an events center in southwest Wyoming. Employees at the Sweetwater Events Complex in Rock Springs say they will recommend discontinuing horse racing. They say interest is down and others want to be able to rent the facility at the same time. The Rock Springs…
Another horse died at the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia over the weekend. A 9-year-old gelding named Kochees was put down after being injured during a race. It’s the 26th fatality at the racetrack since December 26, and the third in the past two weeks. However, people still love Santa Anita, a holy ground…
As racing fans know all too well, the Belmont Stakes is a vastly different animal in a Triple Crown year compared with a non-Triple Crown year. Any Belmont Stakes with a Triple Crown hopeful generates significantly more buzz than years when there is no chance for a sweep, but what does it mean for the…
Photo: Eclipse Sportswire Tacitus, fourth across the wire in the Kentucky Derby before promoted to third with Maximum Security’s disqualification, projects as the morning line favorite for the final leg of the Triple Crown series, the June 8 Belmont Stakes.That’s according to Horse Racing Nation co-founder Mark Midland, who on Wednesday listed early Belmont odds…
Photo: Eclipse Sportswire I am an animal rights activist. I support several animal rights groups. Twice I have gone to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, where we observe gray whales and newborn babies in a protected environment. I have volunteered at animal sanctuaries in Indonesia and Thailand, where I have stayed with rescued elephants…
To their credit, the owners of Santa Anita Park have put in place groundbreaking reforms. They have cut in half the allowable dose of the diuretic Lasix, which nearly every horse in this country races on, and plan to phase out its use over time. They have restricted the use of pain medications, which can…
“You don’t go out and buy a horse like that. You don’t go out and breed it. You just look up and there he is.” That is how eloquently trainer Billy Turner spoke when he described Seattle Slew during a 2013 interview. Even in allowing the imagination to run wild, it would be hard to…
ARCADIA (CNS) – California Sen. Dianne Feinstein today called for a moratorium on horse racing at Santa Anita Race Track, a day after a third horse died at the racetrack in the past 10 days. “How many more horses must die before concrete steps are taken to address what is clearly an acute problem,” Feinstein…
A 26th horse was euthanized Sunday at a Southern California track after suffering a leg injury during a race. He was the third horse to die at Santa Anita Park in the last nine days. Officials told CBS Los Angeles the latest horse to be put down was Kochees, a 9-year-old gelding. The track had gone…
D’Quan Prentice Facebook A jockey who has won more than 250 North American races died in a crash early Monday morning in Florence, according to Cincinnati’s Belterra Park. Euclyn ‘Pede’ Prentice Jr. was thrown from his vehicle when crashing into a transit bus around 12:30 a.m. Monday, WLWT reported. He was pronounced dead at a…
