{"id":759394,"date":"2020-01-20T07:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759394"},"modified":"2020-01-20T07:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:47:50","slug":"third-horse-in-three-days-dies-at-santa-anita-park-four-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759394","title":{"rendered":"Third horse in three days dies at Santa Anita Park &#8211; four in the new year"},"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 third horse in three days was killed at Santa Anita Park in California.  The fourth to die in January, 2020. A total of 37 horses were killed at the track in 2019.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HOLLIE SILVERMAN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The third horse in three days &#8212; the fourth this month &#8212; was put to death at Santa Anita Park in California Sunday, according to a state horse racing board spokesman.The 3-year-old horse, named Tikkun Olam, &#8220;was involved in a head-on collision with another horse while training Sunday morning&#8221; and &#8220;suffered catastrophic injuries, necessitating euthanasia,&#8221; stated California Horse Racing Board spokesman Mike Marten&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>On Friday, a 6-year-old horse named Harliss was euthanized after fracturing its right front ankle, and on Saturday 5-year-old Uncontainable was put to death for the same reason. Golden Birthday, a 4-year-old horse was the first to die this year at the track in Arcadia, northeast of Los Angeles, after being injured during a January 1 race.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The number of horse deaths at the track &#8212; almost 40 in just over a year &#8212; led officials to briefly halt racing there last year. Santa Anita has since made changes in an effort to increase safety for the horses, including restricting steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs and race-day medications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Animal rights organization PETA on Sunday called on the state&#8217;s horse racing board to suspend racing. &#8220;Three dead horses in three days requires immediate action,&#8221; PETA said in a statement. &#8220;If it takes the closure of a track to stop the deaths, then close the track&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/19\/us\/santa-anita-fourth-horse-dies-this-year\/index.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\/z7tiBNFWoqs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLIE SILVERMAN: &#8216;The third horse in three days &#8212; the fourth this month &#8212; was put to death at Santa Anita Park in California Sunday, according to a state horse racing board spokesman.The 3-year-old horse, named Tikkun Olam, &#8220;was involved in a head-on collision with another horse while training Sunday morning&#8221; and &#8220;suffered catastrophic injuries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,35,37],"class_list":["post-759394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759394","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=759394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759396,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759394\/revisions\/759396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}