The California senator urged state racing authorities to shut down events just 5 days before the prestigious Santa Anita Derby.
The Santa Anita Derby, one of horse racing's premier events, is scheduled for Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, where 23 horses have been euthanized since Christmas.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.LOS ANGELES — Sen.
The letter was sent five days before the park in Arcadia, about 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is scheduled to host the $1 million Santa Anita Derby, one of the sport's premier events.Twenty-one horses suffered injuries that required them to be euthanized from Dec. 26 until March 5, when racing was suspended as track officials tried to figure out what was going wrong.
In her letter Tuesday, Feinstein called the moves already made at Santa Anita"positive initial steps," but she called on the track to shut down racing"until the cause or causes of these deaths can be fully investigated." Separately, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, on Monday called on the board to enact emergency rules to ban the use of all drugs and at California tracks.
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