SAN DIEGO — Approximately 25 race horses were killed when a wildfire engulfed about eight barns at a training centre in northeast San Diego County, the California Horse Racing Board said. Mac McBride, who was working with the centre’s trainers, said it was “total pandemonium when several hundred horses were cut loose.”When it was safe to bring in horse vans, surviving horses were taken to Del Mar race track. They were scattered around.”San Luis Rey Downs is home to horses that run at Del Mar and other top-flight California tracks like Santa Anita Park. Horse trainer Scott Hansen said he knows some of the 30 horses he had at the facility were killed. Another trainer, Cliff Sise, told KFMB-TV that he saw about 10 horses die, including his own filly.

Source: National Post December 08, 2017 15:45 UTC