A 4-year-old filly named Eskenforadrink was euthanized after sustaining a serious ankle injury during a race on Saturday.
Twenty horses have now died at California's Santa Anita Park racetrack in the past two months after a 4-year-old filly named Eskenforadrink was euthanized.
Officials had only reopened the main track two days prior to Saturday’s race, after shutting it down for four days in order to conduct a soil inspection. Experts have suggested that recent heavy rainfall in the area may have created dangerous conditions on the track. "This is unusual. It does happen though—it's called statistical clustering—but we always take it seriously," Mick Peterson, director of the University of Kentucky's Agricultural Equine Programs who regularly evaluates soil at Santa Anita, told KABC."This is not an acceptable number of catastrophic injuries."
The organization is now calling for an investigation to determine whether the trainers masked undisclosed injuries in the horses with powerful medications which, PETA claims, are commonly used to keep unfit animals competing.
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