ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita will race three days a week instead of four over the next four weeks because the track has lost some of its racehorses to out-of-state sites. Several stables have shipped horses to Kentucky to run at Keeneland and Churchill Downs, leaving Santa Anita with fewer horses to race and smaller field sizes. Track officials have yet to decide whether to race three days or four for the final three weeks of the spring meet, which ends on June 23. The track said on Friday that it was raising purses for all nonstakes races by $10,000 each for the next six weeks to help owners and trainers who lost money when the track was closed for most of March after 23 horses died there since Dec. 26.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2019 02:15 UTC