News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
There is no consensus on whether the synthetic tracks have helped with injuries, and California tracks could go back to dirt. Death is a sad but common part of thoroughbred racing, but in California the sight of medical vans on racetracks was a grim...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Since 2006, when Hollywood Park installed the first artificial oval, to September of this year, the fatality rate has fallen to 1.70 per 1,000 starts, from 3.09 per 1,000 on dirt. Here at Santa Anita Park, where the Breeders’ Cup World...