Santa Anita had its first horse fatality on the second day of the new racing season when a 2-year-old colt suffered a life-ending break of his left front cannon bone during the running of Sunday’s Eddie Logan Stakes. Ebeko, an Irish bred, had run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf race at Keeneland on Nov. 6, finishing ninth. He finished second in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf before winning the Zuma Beach at Santa Anita. The death of Ebeko was the 16th racing or training death of this calendar year at Santa Anita but the first of the racing year, which started Saturday. Last year, Santa Anita had 37 fatalities.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 27, 2020 22:36 UTC