{"id":757171,"date":"2019-05-28T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757171"},"modified":"2019-05-28T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:02:05","slug":"third-horse-in-9-days-dies-at-californias-santa-anita-racetrack-26-killed-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757171","title":{"rendered":"Third horse dies in 9 days at California&#8217;s Santa Anita racetrack, 26 killed in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The horse deaths prompted several investigations earlier this year, including a task force convened by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office and the California Horse Racing Board. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KARMA ALLEN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Another horse died at Southern California&#8217;s prominent Santa Anita racetrack over the weekend, marking the third thoroughbred fatality at the facility in the last nine days, and the 26th fatality since December. A 9-year-old horse named Kochees sustained a fatal injury to its left front leg during a 5 1\/2-furlong race on Saturday, adding to the embattled racetrack&#8217;s worries as it works to implement reforms&#8230; Santa Anita Park, owned by the Canadian-based Stronach Group, postponed several races earlier this year and hired respected trackman Dennis Moore to help assess the condition of its main track&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Some experts attributed the cluster of thoroughbred deaths to inclement weather&#8230; At least 26 horses have died racing or training since the track opened for the winter season Dec. 26. The horse deaths prompted several investigations earlier this year, including a task force convened by the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the California Horse Racing Board. The three most recent deaths were the first reported since track officials introduced new reforms last month, track officials said&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/gma\/3rd-horse-9-days-dies-californias-santa-anita-024800887--abc-news-topstories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7orCe2cdyFs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARMA ALLEN: &#8216;Another horse died at Southern California&#8217;s prominent Santa Anita racetrack over the weekend, marking the third thoroughbred fatality at the facility in the last nine days, and the 26th fatality since December. A 9-year-old horse named Kochees sustained a fatal injury to its left front leg during a 5 1\/2-furlong race on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,25],"tags":[27,28,30,35],"class_list":["post-757171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757174,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757171\/revisions\/757174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}