State horse racing officials said Saturday that increased safety measure have led to a decline in the number of horses who died from racing and training injuries.
DEl MAR - State horse racing officials said Saturday that increased safety measure have led to a decline in the number of horses who died from racing and training injuries at California tracks in the 2022-23 fiscal year, while acknowledging that the number of"other" racehorse deaths increased slightly during that time.
"That's still too many fatalities, but it shows that all of the new regulations, policies, and procedures that we've introduced in cooperation with the industry have had a significant effect," CHRB Chairman Greg Ferraro said."Our efforts are focused primarily on preventable injuries, and that's what the numbers reflect. I don't know of any racing jurisdiction in the country that even comes close to matching this effort or result.
"Unfortunately, the number of `other' deaths increased last year, and those 43 deaths, coupled with the 26 due to musculoskeletal injuries, brought the total to 69, or three more than the 66 the previous year," the CHRB said. The state board noted that approximately 30,000 race starts and more than 100,000 workouts occur each year involving 8,000 to 10,000 horses at CHRB- regulated facilities."A 65% increase in `non-musculoskeletal' deaths in one year is pretty significant. And some of these `other and non-musculoskeletal deaths' are actually musculoskeletal deaths ... , five accidents listed with fractures in 2022," Martha Sullivan of Kill Racing Not Horses said in a statement to City News Service.
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