{"id":759615,"date":"2020-02-13T07:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759615"},"modified":"2020-02-13T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:55:53","slug":"santa-anita-sixth-horse-death-of-racing-season-and-43rd-since-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759615","title":{"rendered":"Santa Anita: Sixth horse death of racing season, and 43rd since December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JOHN CHERWA:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Santa Anita had its sixth racing or training fatality of the season when Double Touch, a 6-year-old gelding, died on the training track Saturday in what was described as a &#8220;sudden death.&#8221; Though the track released few details, this kind of death is generally attributed to a heart attack or something other than &#8220;catastrophic,&#8221; or a horse that breaks down because of some kind of exercise-induced fracture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The horse had completed a four-furlong workout on Saturday and collapsed and died. If a horse fatality is listed as sudden death the horse was not euthanized. As is standard, a necropsy will be performed&#8230; Last year, to this point, Santa Anita had 13 fatalities&#8230; and a disastrous season in which 37 horses died, including Mongolian Groom in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/more-sports\/santa-anita-suffered-sixth-horse-death-of-season-on-saturday\/ar-BBZUO4N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KsIxByhElC4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN CHERWA: &#8216;Santa Anita had its sixth racing or training fatality of the season when Double Touch, a 6-year-old gelding, died on the training track Saturday in what was described as a &#8220;sudden death.&#8221; Though the track released few details, this kind of death is generally attributed to a heart attack or something other than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,37],"class_list":["post-759615","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-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759615","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=759615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759617,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759615\/revisions\/759617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}