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Santa Anita Park attacks fatal toll through technology. It is the first race track to use the Mile-Pet scanner, developed by the veterinary medicine department at UC Davis. Its purpose is to find things inside a horse's legs and ankles that will cause a problem. It will not eliminate tragic outcomes on the race track but the hope is it will improve safety, keeping unfit horses in the barn and reduce the horse death toll.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2019
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p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2019
Pages
p. B1
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Benson, Dionne, Dr.
Horses and horse racing
Euthanasia
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
Whicker, Mark
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District Attorney Jackie Lacey finds no crime or wrongdoing in horse deaths. Prosecutor says there is no evidence owners, jockeys or trainers knowingly raced injured animals at Santa Anita Park over the past year. Since July 2018, 56 horses have died at Arcadia race track. Of those, 34 died while running on Santa Anita's main dirt track. Santa Anita Park averages about 2.04 deaths per 1000 racing starts, according to the Jockey Club. The national average in 2018 was 1.68 deaths per 1000 starts. The District Attorney's report includes 27 recommended changes to improve safety and reduce fatalities. See also same story at Arcadia Weekly, p. 2, December 26, 2019.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2019
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p. A1, A4
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Guillermo, Kathy
Horses and horse racing
Lacey, Jackie
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
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Horse racing deaths report delayed. California Horse Racing Board (CHRB), the state regulatory board, aims for January 15 release of investigation of Santa Anita Park incidents. The report was supposed to become public before the end of the year. Several new policies and safety regulations were introduced the past year as a result of a public outcry over the horse deaths at Santa Anita. The state is doing more drug testing, more pre-race exams, improving medical record keeping, pushing for new technology. Santa Anita Park installed a PET Scan machine to help identify pre-existing conditions in the fetlock area of a horse. To date, 37 horses have died at Santa Anita Park since December 2018. Despite the deaths, the equine medical director Rick Arthur stressed that the number of fatalities in California is actually decreasing, saying there have been 58 deaths at race tracks across the state in 2019, compared to 67 deaths in 2018.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 13, 2019
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p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 13, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Arthur, Rick
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Horses and horse racing
Euthanasia
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
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California Horse Racing Board (CHRB): ban more drugs, release tests. The CHRB wants California Governor Gavin Newsom to pursue changes to state law that would allow the agency to immediately release results of a positive horse drug test and permit more stakeholders, including jockeys and track veterinarians, to access a horse's medical history. Currently, drug test results are confidential. The changes are part of an effort to curb equine deaths and improve safety at California race tracks. Nearly 40 horses have died at Santa Anita Park in the last year.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2019
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p. A1, A14
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A14
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
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Santa Anita Park: weather could impact track. Santa Anita Park agrees to California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) demand to cancel horse racing in case of inclement weather during the winter-spring meet that begins December 26. Jockey Joel Rosario is mentioned in this article.Gregory Ferraro, new chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, a former race track veterinarian who was appointed to the board by Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year, pledged the state board would be pursuing stricter regulations than it has in the past.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 23, 2019
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p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 23, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Horses and horse racing
Ferraro, Gregory
Rosario, Joel
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
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Santa Anita Park: another horse dies; summary on its way. Death is fifth in month; The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) report on past meet is due in December. GQ Covergirl, a 6-year-old mare trained by Doug O'Neill injured her front legs Friday on Santa Anita's training track and was euthanized.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 26, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 26, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
O'Neill, Doug
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Arcadia City Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Roger Chandler said he wouldn't want the basketball courts rebuilt because he doesn't like the "type" they attract. The old courts have been demolished already and City Council eventually recommitted to an improvement plan that permanently eliminates Eisenhower Park's basketball courts. Chandler's comments prompted an immediate uproar from residents in attendance. Council member April Verlato said his use of the phrase "the type" could be perceived as racist but doesn't think he meant it that way, but he should apologize. The renovated park will cost nearly $6.3 million, including a baseball diamond and large picnic area.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 23, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 23, 2019
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p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Basketball
Chandler, Roger
Eisenhower Park
Parks
Verlato, April
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Veterans Administration (VA) opens clinic medical offices in May in San Gabriel Valley, in Arcadia, eight years after a VA clinic closed in Pasadena. It is called San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic and provides--on an interm basis--basic clinical services that do not require surgery, such as physical exams and X-rays. Veterans also will have access to primary care, mental health care, telehealth and basic lab services. It will remain operational for 3-5 years and eventually be replaced by a permanent, full clinic. It is at 7 West Foothill Boulevard.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2019
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2019
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p. A5
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Medicine
San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Veterans Administration (VA)
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Santa Anita Park: horse dies in training incident. Two-year-old colt Derby River is the 27th horse to die since December. He suffered a broken shoulder while galloping and was euthanized. Ruben Gomez was the trainer.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
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California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Gomez, Ruben
Guillermo, Kathy
Horses and horse racing
Martin, Mike
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Arcadia High School's 2019 Valedictorian Kevin Tan (photo), is headed to Harvard University in the fall on a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Article has photos of other Arcadia High School graduates at the 2019 commencement at Santa Anita Park.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
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p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Tan, Kevin
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Another horse dies at Santa Anita Park, the twenty-sixth fatality since December 26. Kochees, a 9-year-old gelding, injured in Saturday's sixth race, had to be euthanized.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A12
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A12
Subjects
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Man gets 64 years for sexually assaulting three workers at Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia. Diego Cervantes, 37, of San Gabriel is a former maintenance supervisor at the mall. He was found guilty of rape and other sexual offenses.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2019
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2019
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Cervantes, Diego
Westfield Santa Anita
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Arcadia. Is horse racing addicted to drugs? Medication use is widespread, and critics say it contributes to deaths like those at Santa Anita Park. Half of the three dozen horses that died at Santa Anita Park in the 12 months before the current meet were on at least one anti-inflammatory medication, a major focal point in the investigation into equine deaths at the racetrack. Critics argue overuse of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, or NSAIDs, masks the injuries of horses and increases the chances of a fatal breakdown. The California Horse Racing Board’s research indicates 90% of breaks stem from preexisting injuries. Animal rights organizations say these medications likely contributed to the deaths of 23 horses at Santa Anita Park since the season began December 26, 2018.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 14, 2019
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p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 14, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Henry, Jason
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Item ID
35614AN
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Santa Anita Park. Jockeys’ Guild wipes whip plans. California Horse Racing Board accepting comments on ‘corrective safety measures.’ Jockeys’ Guild postponing an apparent stunt in which jockeys planned to ride without whips. The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) is currently accepting comments for a proposed statewide change that would limit the use of whips, or riding crops, to “corrective safety measures.” The guild is opposed to the change. Thoroughbred Owners of California asked the jockeys to cancel the plan, according to Terry Meyocks, guild president and CEO.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
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p. B1, B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
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p. B1, B8
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California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Horses and horse racing
Meyocks, Terry
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Henry, Jason
Item ID
35610AN
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Authorities identify dead woman found slain at her home in Arcadia as 76-year-old Chyong Jen Tsai. Detectives are still looking for whoever killed the Arcadia grandmother and stole a white Lexus RX300 from the home in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Three weeks before the killing, her home had been burglarized. Detectives are not ruling out this connection to the homicide.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
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p. A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Biddle, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35611AN
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Police find woman’s body in Arcadia backyard in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. A 76-year-old Arcadia woman was killed yesterday at her home and her vehicle was stolen. The coroner’s office has not yet identified the woman. Neighbors said she was a longtime resident with two daughters and a grandson. The motive behind the killing is unknown.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
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p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
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p. A3, A5
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Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35609AN
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Los Angeles County Arboretum. $8 million cleanup and restoration of Baldwin Lake sought. Flood control district assigns funding; expense to go before supervisors in July. Baldwin Lake is severely polluted centerpiece of the county Arboretum, visited by 400,000 people annually. The 144-year-old lake, dug out by 19th century real estate pioneer Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin on his estate, has been dying a slow death because of the accumulation of street runoff laced with heavy metals, automobile brake fragments and other chemicals that create algae blooms and strong odors. Supervisor Kathryn Barger is championing the project.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2019
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p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2019
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p. A1, A6
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Barger, Kathryn
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and Flood Control District
Pestrella, Mark
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35608AN
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As horse deaths mount at Santa Anita Park, racing fans and foes say the sport faces an uncertain future. Pressure grows to abolish industry, but there’s no inexpensive, clear-cut path to finish line.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2019
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p. A1, A4
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Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Chu, Judy (Congresswoman, Rep. D-Arcadia)
Feinstein, Dianne (Senator D-Calif)
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35604AN
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Santa Anita Park. Federal lawmakers Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-Arcadia) call for halt to racing. Both send letters to California Horse Racing Board demanding ways to address horse deaths at Arcadia track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35409
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A8
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Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Baffert, Bob
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Chu, Judy (Rep. D-Arcadia)
Feinstein, Dianne (Senator D-Calif)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Stronach Group
Item ID
35601AN
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California Horse Racing Board votes to limit whip use: under the rule, riders could face suspensions or fines; further approval needed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35391
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2019
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p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Deaths
Guillermo, Kathy
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys' Guild
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Solis, Alex
Stronach, Belinda
Stronach Group
Thoroughbred Owners of California
Item ID
35583AN
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