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So, What Would It Take to Appease Animal Rights MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019 MITOLE: A MEMENTO OF ED COX SO, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE by Chris McGrath TO APPEASE ANIMAL When a horseman as seasoned as Bill Landes ventures the possibility that Mitole may be the fastest Thoroughbred ever RIGHTS ACTIVISTS? raised at Hermitage Farm, it is time to hang onto our hats. Hermitage, after all, first sent up a yearling to auction in 1937; and Landes himself has been there since 1977. The man who hired him, Warner L. Jones Jr., had bred Dark Star, the only horse ever to beat Native Dancer; while in his own time Landes, named Ted Bates Farm Manager of the Year in 2017, has handled animals as resonant as Woodman, Northern Trick, world-record yearling Seattle Dancer and, more recently, West Coast (Flatter). Those of us fearing that we might be getting carried away by Mitole, then, can be grateful for an authentic depth of perspective from Landes as the horse prepares for the GI Metropolitan H. on GI Belmont S. Day. Cont. p6 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Clocker’s Corner at Santa Anita | Santa Anita photo SOTTSASS DOWNS THE KING AT CHANTILLY Peter Brant’s Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) posts a commanding The Week in Review, By Bill Finley win in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club. Last Monday, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein called for a Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. moratorium on horse racing at Santa Anita, as well as the need for a “thorough investigation of practices and conditions” in the sport. The Democratic Senator from California does not have the power to close racing at Santa Anita, but her voice is a powerful and influential one and her latest statement further tightened the noose around Santa Anita’s neck. Not that everyone, be they a politician, an animal rights activist, an owner, trainer, even a $2 bettor, should not want horse racing to be as safe as possible for the equine athletes, but the timing of her assault on the sport was not fair. It was also a sign that this issue is just not going to go away easily. Not when Santa Anita has done so much to turn the corner and so few horses have broken down since the initial rash of fatalities. And at least one of the accusations she leveled was preposterous. She implied that the over-racing of horses may be part of the problem. Someone on her staff should have told her that in the long history of the sport, horses have, as a whole, never raced so infrequently. Under the leadership of The Stronach Group, Santa Anita has taken strides to make the sport as safe as possible that are unprecedented. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Monday, June 3, 2019 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Maximum Security (New Year's Day) got in his second serious bit of exercise since the Justina Severni GI Kentucky Derby when doing a characteristically slow two-minute lick for trainer Jason Servis Sunday morning at Monmouth. The colt's next start will be at the Jersey Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes Shore oval, either in the TVG.com Pegasus S. June 16 or GI TVG.com Haskell [email protected] Invitational July 20. See story on page 10. | Sarah Andrew Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen TDN WINS SIX AWARDS AT THE AHP 10 Director of Information Technology The TDN took home several honors in Saturday night’s Ray Villa American Horse Publication’s Equine Media Awards. [email protected] Bookkeeper Terry May TACITUS FIRES BULLET IN FINAL BELMONT TUNE-UP 10 [email protected] Maximum Security wasn’t the only Derby runner in action Sunday morning, as Juddmonte Farms’ Tacitus (Tapit) WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor went a bullet five furlongs in his final breeze for Saturday’s Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN GI Belmont S. [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • JUNE 3, 2019 The Week in Review cont. from p1 ugliest in racing history, and, to this date, no one has really put After many of the steps were implemented following the their finger on just what caused this to happen. The best guess is deaths of 23 horses, Santa Anita went six weeks without a single that an unusually rainy period caused havoc with the track and fatality, during which time horses either raced, worked or made it unsafe. Santa Anita management did the right thing and trained around 50,000 times at has said that should there ever the Southern California track. again be a situation where the Just as the furor was starting amount of rain is comparable to to die down, three more horses what it was last winter, it will died within a recent nine-day simply close until the track has period. Feinstein had already had a chance to right itself. called for racing to be That’s why this Santa Anita suspended in April during the meet has to be looked at as two height of the hysteria over the separate meets, the before and 23 fatal breakdowns that began the after. The before period with the start of the meet. She covers opening day, Dec. 26 reacted again after the three until Mar. 8. Afterward, Santa latest deaths and PETA followed Anita shut down for 21 days and up with a press release calling management did everything for the suspension of racing Dianne Feinstein | Getty Images within its power to correct the nationwide “until every racing problem. The after period began jurisdiction matches or surpasses what California has done.” Mar. 29 when Santa Anita re-opened. Since, three horses have PETA also chose to go after New York, claiming that 15 horses broken down, and two of the three fatalities occurred due to had died at New York tracks so far this year. problems that were out of the ordinary--not ones related to a The period during which the 23 horses died was among the horse breaking a leg during training and racing. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • JUNE 3, 2019 That means that over a 55-day period, three horses have died at Santa Anita. Unfortunately, that number is not at all out of the ordinary. In a sport where fatalities are unavoidable, since Mar. 29 Santa Anita, by any measure, simply has not been an unsafe racetrack. All of which begs the question: What do PETA and other animal rights activists want? If it is for racing to follow, or even go beyond the protocols, that The Stronach Group has implemented and racing follows suit, then a cease fire is possible. But everyone in racing should be worried that even that won’t be enough. You can bring back synthetic tracks, ban every drug under the sun, get rid of whips, kick out every trainer who doesn’t give their horses the very best care possible or is believed to use performance-enhancing drugs and still horses will die. That’s the cold, harsh reality of horse racing. Can the animal rights community accept that? Is one death one too many, and, to them, reason why horse racing should be banned nationwide? If so, racing may well be mired in a fight it cannot win. People in horse racing love to hate PETA, and PETA often gives them good reason to do so (e.g. blaming jockey Gabriel Saez for the breakdown of Eight Belles in the GI Kentucky Derby). But for a group that so many have labeled as out-of-control radicals, its reaction to the Santa Anita situation has been somewhat subdued. I asked PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo what her organization does and does not find tolerable and this was her answer: “That's a complicated question. I don't accept, first of all, that it's proven that horses will die no matter what. First of all, horses die, humans die, all animals die, I get that and that's going to happen in any endeavor where horses are used. But I don't think that nearly enough has been done to know whether or not we can get that fatality rate down to zero. At the very least, everybody should be trying to get there and doing everything possible.” And what if every track in the U.S. got as serious about safety issues as Santa Anita has? “I look at what Santa Anita has done, they had that six weeks after they implemented the first rules,” she said. “We felt those rules were fantastic but not strong enough. We think there is more that can be done and we're working with them on that right now and with the California Horse Racing Board.
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