The California Horse Racing Board will hold a meeting to discuss new rules for safety and giving medication to horses after 22 horses died at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.
Vasilika, second from right, with Flavien Prat aboard, draws away in mid-stretch and goes on to win the Grade II, $200,000 Buena Vista Stakes horse race, Feb. 23, 2019, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.
If approved, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields in Albany would be the first racetracks in the country to ban the use of riding crops and medication on racing days, according to the Associated Press. Santa Anita Park announced on March 14 that it would enact a "zero tolerance" policy for the use of medication on racing day in the wake of the "heartbreaking" deaths.
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