In the 10th at Santa Anita Saturday, Formal Dude “took a bad step” and was “vanned off” (Equibase). “Took a bad step” is one of this industry’s euphemisms of choice for dead. And indeed, we have confirmation that the 4-year-old was euthanized – for a broken pelvis.  

Sunday: Truffalino “collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack near the conclusion of an allowance turf race” at Santa Anita this afternoon, reports the Daily Racing Form. Truffalino was three – “an apparent heart attack.” I’m out of words.  

Governor Gavin Newsom  Phone: (916) 445-2841 

Fax: (916) 558-3160

Email: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

Senator Dianne Feinstein  DC Office Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954  

Los Angeles Office
Main: (310) 914-7300 Fax: (310) 914-7318  

Email: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

NOTE:This is not a Santa Anita problem. Horseracing kills horses inherently. Belmont averages 42 dead horses annually- 15, so far, this year. Saratoga in just a 6 week meet, 14.  Churchill Downs' kill rate is higher than Santa Anita's.  And that doesn't even begin to address the cheaper tracks.  Horseracing must end.

Horseracing Wrongs is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to end horseracing through education and grassroots activism in the U.S. Our mission is to end thecruelty and the killing so horses can live a life they deserve - free of exploitation.