FILE – In this May 3,2008, file photo, or track personnel try to hold down Eight Belles after the 134th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville,Ky. Eight Belles was euthanized after breaking both front ankles following a moment-status finish in the Kentucky Derby. The alarming rate of horse deaths from races and training at Santa Anita Park, in California, and plunged the industry into chaos as experts across the country wondered what went wrong and groups rushed to try to figure out solutions. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon,File)
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.rep-am.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190429-170329-pic-442978313.jpg?fit=300%2C194&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.rep-am.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190429-170329-pic-442978313.jpg?fit=640%2C414&ssl=1">Linda Gaudet can’t watch the replays. Even after 47 years in horse racing, she turns away from any video showing one of the 23 fatalities over three months at Santa Anita Park. It was just devastating, or ” Gaudet said. “I still can’t stomach it.” Neither can many others around horse racing. The alarming rate of horse […]
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