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or Rajiv Maragh took to Twitter to declare their self-imposed absence from racing, there was no such pronouncement to be found more than 100 years ago. “Nothing was written in the Form about social distancing or hand washing or whatever they might have called fist bumps had they been a custom back in the day. “Yet one week later there was not a word about the flu in a story from that very track heralding Sir Barton’s win of the Belmont Stakes to go with ‘his victories in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Withers Stakes.’ (There also was no mention of a Triple Crown the sweep absent the Withers was not given that name for another 11 years.) There is scarcely a stable at the course which is not housing some of its victims.’ ‘More than 100 costly thoroughbreds are suffering from it.
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“’There is an epidemic of equine influenza at Belmont Park,’ read the lead paragraph of a DRF story dated June 4, 1919. “While there were occasional notes in those old clips about someone in racing being sidelined or even killed by flu, it seemed back then that horses were as vulnerable to infection as humans. But there was also no thought of racing behind closed doors, especially since the sport did not have the benefit of live television. “There is no debate over the fact that there was no social media back then to quickly spread the news of positive tests and voluntary quarantines. Whether Americans did not know better or did not care enough about the flu is a matter for historians to debate. The 1919 Kentucky Derby, eventually won by first-time Triple Crown champion Sir Barton, never seemed to be under threat the way that it has been this year. “Digging through the University of Kentucky’s on-line Form archives at it became clear that the flu of 1918-19 was not regarded the same way as the coronavirus of 2020. So, the track was reopened two weeks later, welcoming ‘one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed racing in the state of Maryland.’
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“It was not long after Laurel was closed when civic leaders and experts of yester-century expressed confidence that the flu had been harnessed in the immediate area. The pandemic was eventually blamed for 675,000 American deaths between 19. 12, 1918, because of the outbreak of what was known in those final days of World War I as the Spanish flu. That was how the Daily Racing Form reported the track’s closing on Oct. But that was not from this week’s response to the coronavirus. “ ‘In compliance with the order of the Maryland State Board of Health, the management of the Laurel race track announced late this afternoon that until further notice the track will be closed and racing discontinued (because of) the epidemic.’ “The news was not unexpected, but it was still a shock to read. He offers up some thoughts about how this isn’t the first time racing has had a situation like this. It’s time for our weekly contribution from Ron Flatter of the Vegas Stats and Information Network. It shows TSG is trying hard to help the industry out of this latest crisis, not going for short-term profits. That takes the greed argument square off the table. It seems like a smart argument, and, here’s the kicker, The Stronach Group plans to donate all its profits, although it didn’t have a specific plan yet as to who that might be. It costs around $100 to $125 a day to keep a horse under the care of a trainer and without the possibility of racing purses that the industry would collapse.” “The fear is that if horses are kept in training, with no chance of racing, that many owners and trainers would leave California. The tracks argued that the number of people it takes to put on racing is far less than what it takes on a daily basis to care, train and exercise the horses. So, they would have to be taken out to jog or gallop. Horses can’t be kept in the barn all the time and need to be exercised to keep from being fractious in their stalls and potentially hurt themselves. “There are more than 3,000 horses at Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields. There are more than 1,000 people that live at Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields. “They made the argument that horse racing is a self-contained ecosystem and that the majority of people who care for the horses live on the backstretch of the track. Castro Ramirez, secretary of California Business, Consumer Services, the body that oversees racing, and Rick Baedeker, executive director of the CHRB. “Both the Stronach Group, Del Mar and the Thoroughbred Owners of California made their pitch to keep running to Gov.