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Sunday, April 21, 2019
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| LS | LONE STAR PARK | 72 | 0 | 3:35 PM | 2:35 PM | CDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | |||
| WO | WOODBINE | 72 | 48 |
By Joe Drape
Santa Anita Park has suspended thoroughbred racing indefinitely after a spike of fatalities have cast doubt on the safety of its racing surface.
Stop scratching on holidays
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
The action came late Tuesday after a 4-year-old filly, Lets Light the Way, was euthanized after sustaining a shattered sesamoid, a bone at the horse’s ankle joint. It was the 21st horse fatality suffered in racing or training at Santa Anita, considered one of horse racing’s premier showcases, since Dec. 26.
In a statement, Tim Ritvo, the chief operating officer of the Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita, said he had “been in constant communication with the California Horse Racing Board and numerous key industry stakeholders, who are in full agreement with the decision to suspend racing and training.”
“The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority,” Ritvo said in the statement. “While we are confident further testing will confirm the soundness of the track, the decision to close is the right thing to do at this time.”
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The spike is startling considering that in 2017, 20 deaths occurred among a total of 8,463 starts over a span of 122 racing days at Santa Anita, according to Jockey Club data.
The track was closed on Feb. 26 and 27 after the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Battle of Midway suffered a fatal injury during a workout. A track safety expert from the University of Kentucky, Mick Peterson, was brought in to search for possible irregularities that might explain the spike in fatalities.
Shortly after the course was reopened, the filly Eskenforadrink became the 20th fatality, breaking down during a race and later being euthanized.
Santa Anita, known as the Great Race Place, has held multiple Breeders’ Cup World Championships and is scheduled to host the event again this year on Nov. 1 and 2. It was supposed to offer one of its biggest days of racing on Saturday, starting with two Grade 1 events (the Santa Anita Handicap and the Frank E. Kilroe Mile) and a pair of Grade 2 races, including the San Felipe Stakes, an important prep race for the Kentucky Derby.
While no conclusions have been made, almost 12 inches of rain has fallen since the meeting began. Still, there is no quantifiable evidence that rain played a factor in the deaths.
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There were 1.61 deaths per 1,000 starts in the United States in 2017, according to the most recent figures from the Jockey Club, a slight increase in the rate of fatal injury compared to 2016, when there were 1.54 deaths per 1,000 starts.
The majority of those deaths occurred on dirt surfaces (1.74 per 1,000 starts) compared to turf (1.36).
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