The racing industry is scrambling!

The recent string of racehorse deaths at Santa Anita Park in California has attracted widespread national attention and, in the process, left the racing industry scrambling. Part of their strategy of distraction is to use words like "spike," "spate," and "anomaly," implying that this - in the words of CHRB equine medical director Rick Arthur - is but a "blip on the radar." Nothing could be further from the truth.