Another horse death forces Santa Anita to take drastic steps
LOS ANGELES - They faulted Southern California's unusually cold and wet winter.
They wondered if something was wrong with Santa Anita's mile-long dirt track.
They brought in two experts to study the mixture of sand, silt and clay. They tweaked safety rules in an effort to identify at-risk horses. They suspended racing and training last week.
But horses continued dying.
The surge in catastrophic breakdowns by horses at Santa Anita that have defied explanation and roiled the sport continued on a cloudless Thursday morning.
The day after the track reopened for training, Princess Lili B
