Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted February 28, 2019 Journalists Share Posted February 28, 2019 After being closed since 9 a.m. Monday morning, the main track at Santa Anita re-opened Thursday morning, and there were no incidents or reports of serious injuries. The track has been closed so tests could be taken to see if experts could find any specific problems with the racing surface. Nineteen horses have died at Santa Anita since Dec. 26, either during races or during training hours. The green light was given to resume training after the track was inspected by a team headed by racetrack surface expert Mick Peterson, the director of the University of Kentucky’s Agricultural Equine Program. “Things went well during training,” Peterson said. “Everything is progressing positively and everything looks good. Santa Anita management is being proactive and they’re not taking this lightly. That’s when I get worried, when a track has been complacent and that isn’t the case here at all.” Peterson, who has done extensive tests, has not been able to find anything wrong with the track. “We’re not seeing anything wrong,” he said. “The comparison here is what they do with the National Traffic Safety Administration. We’ll put all our material together, we’ll give it to the California Horse Racing Board and they’ll combine that with the necropsy data. If we have an unsual pattern of injuries, that begins to raise questions about all sorts of isuses that have nothing to do wth the track. We have to look at everything. This story will be updated. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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