Los Al in CA has to submit a Joint Injection Plan to CHRB based on a fairly significant difference in fatalities at Los Al vs Del Mar, Santa Anita and Golden Gate.
Speaking during the CHRB’s regular monthly teleconference, executive director Scott Chaney told commissioners that evaluations of fatalities at Los Alamitos showed that horses there had been injected on average three times over their lifetimes. By comparison, that figure was a 0.6 average for racehorse fatalities at Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, and Golden Gate Fields, according to Chaney.
One possible consideration is that
Los Alamitos conducts a regular nighttime mixed-breed meet of Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds in addition to periodic higher-quality afternoon meets exclusive to Thoroughbreds. It also serves as a major training facility.
Los Al has responded positively to implementing stricter corticosteroid intra-articular injections.
This follows a summer agreement between Los Alamitos and the CHRB in which the track was required to submit enhanced safety protocols after 21 horses had died from racing or training through July 20, nearly half of which had come over a period from late May through mid-July.
Since the summer protocols were put in place, six on-track racehorse fatalities have occurred at Los Alamitos, specifically during racing, according to CHRB online records.
To me, a sobering number from Los Al but also encouraged that they’ll be addressing injection ‘behavior’.
This article from BH didn’t differentiate between the 3 types of races that Los Al runs… QH, mixed-breed QH/TB, and occasional higher-quality exclusive to TBs.
More detailed info on article from PaulickReport.
