California closer to adopting nation's most restrictive horse racing whip rule
by John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2019
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES - The California Horse Racing Board, faced with a crisis over a spike in equine deaths, on Thursday voted to implement the most stringent use of the riding crop by jockeys in North America.
The riding crop, or whip, has not been proved to be a factor in the series of deaths, but the optics of a jockey hitting a horse
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