21 Horses killed in the past 2 months Racing halted at Santa Anita Disturbing. Thoroughbreds are being affected by climate change and human exploitation. Need to figure this out and act on it immediately, even if it means limiting how horses are trained and how many races they can run
Santa Anita is in southern California, which normally has a minimal amount of rain. Now they see a lot of rain due to fluctuating atmospheric pressure, and it's rain mixed with particulate from wildfires and dead foliage. All this is happening on a surface that doesn't absorb the water well.
I'm not sure why those horses died, just saying climate change effects precipitation. Both potentially increasing it and decreasing it depending on the affected areas and seasons.
Don't run the races when the conditions are not ideal. Different horses train in different conditions, depending on where they are going to be racing, I'd imagine those running in SoCal are not used to going all-out in mud. [/thread]
EDIT Just read the article, this is about injuries due to the track having a different density/impact on their bones? Crazy that it would fatally injure that many horses.
You are incredibly uninformed - please do not comment publicly on real issues and further muddy the waters. Releasing huge amounts of toxins, pollutants and chemicals into the air (while destroying undeveloped lands with vegetation that absorbs co2) changes precipitation patterns, air pressure levels and causes clouds to stall where they normally wouldn't. You also deal with overdevelopment on lands that used to be soil. These are facts, not opinions.
I’m sure additional rain exacerbated poor track conditions, but if I was gonna blame any one thing for these animal’s deaths, I’d blame horse racing.
