Horse racing: Santa Anita to re-open foremost music to education on Monday

(Reuters) – Santa Anita will open its one-mile dirt track to limited training on Monday after it has been closed for almost a week following the deaths of 21 horses over months, officers on the famed Southern California race track said on Saturday. Training can be constrained to joggers and gallopers, Santa Anita stated in an announcement. All training and racing on the track near Los Angeles had been shut down on Tuesday as professionals worked to locate the reason for the spate of catastrophic accidents sustained through horse racing or training at the main track. That included calling off a big day of racing on Saturday. At the same time, the San Felipe Stakes for three-year-old Kentucky Derby contenders and the Santa Anita Handicap for older horses have been scheduled.

“Over the beyond 4 days, we’ve been able to do a splendid deal in terms of amending the soil and inspecting it,” stated California-based total trackman Dennis Moore, who heads a collection of music protection employees and out of doors specialists investigating Santa Anita’s main track. “I think the maximum vital thing with this track right now is that we carefully monitor compaction degrees,” Moore stated. He stated that all the rains in Southern California this winter had affected situations at the time. Santa Anita on Friday reopened to mild schooling on its six-furlong inner exercise track after being inspected. No deaths have passed off on the exercise music. Depending on the outcome of destiny inspections and weather, racing ought to probably resume at the tune on March 21. Tim Ritvo, the chief working officer of track owner The Stronach Group, told Daily Racing Form on Friday.