Laurel Park Cancels Racing This Weekend In Wake Of Reported Horse Fatalities

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LAUREL, Md. (WJZ) — Racing astatine Laurel Park has been canceled betwixt Dec. 3-5 truthful workers tin analyse a precocious installed way aboveground that has caused a fig equine injuries, the Maryland Jockey Club and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association said Thursday.

The announcement comes 1 time aft Thoroughbred Daily News reported 7 horses person died connected the way since Nov. 6, starring to a simplification successful the fig of equines grooming connected the way successful caller days.

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“While racing is suspended, the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and the Maryland Jockey Club are moving with manufacture experts to analyse aboveground creation and attraction procedures directed astatine the safest imaginable racing surface,” the groups said.

A caller ungraded way opened astatine Laurel Park successful August aft crews spent 4 months replacing the cushion, basal and substructure of the racing surface, the Maryland Jockey Club said successful an earlier quality release.

The way was closed past April and an extended racing conscionable was held astatine Pimlico Race Course successful Baltimore to accommodate the renovations of Laurel’s ungraded track.

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Speaking with Thoroughbred Daily News, Alan Foreman, an lawyer who represents the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, said astir of the “red-flag clump of fatalities” occurred adjacent the mediate of the homestretch.

“If determination is simply a short-term remedy, past we’ll effort to instrumentality a short-term remedy. If it’s a longer-term issue, we’ll person to code each of those factors,” Foreman told the manufacture quality site.

The Maryland Jockey Club and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association said the authorities has seen its lowest fatality complaint among racehorses until this caller spate of deaths.

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“The safety, wellness and payment of equine athletes is the superior work of each stakeholders successful Maryland and indispensable beryllium taken seriously,” the groups said successful a associated release. “The Maryland racing manufacture remains laser focused connected this occupation and collectively pledges to bash immoderate is indispensable to guarantee that Maryland’s historical racing manufacture remains world-class.”

CBS Baltimore Staff

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