LOS ANGELES — The California Horse Racing Board will weigh new safety and medication rules Thursday in the wake of 22 horse deaths at Santa Anita. The board is meeting at the track northeast of Los Angeles to consider whether to ban medication and whips on racing days, among other changes. If approved, Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields in Northern California would become the first racetracks in the nation to impose such restrictions. She said she planned to attend the racing board’s meeting and hopes its members approve all of the Santa Anita’s proposed changes. “These new rules are the most progressive actions to help horses in a generation,” she said.

Source: National Post March 28, 2019 07:18 UTC