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Rising Drug Use on California's Horse Racing Tracks?
Woth $4.1 billion a year, California is the biggest horse-racing state in the nation, but it's falling behind on enforcement of rules against the drugging of horses.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readWoth $4.1 billion a year, California is the biggest horse-racing state in the nation, but it's falling behind on enforcement of rules against the drugging of horses. In the past six years, more than a quarter-billion dollars have been bet on winners who failed drug texts after their races were over, creating "a climate for drug abuse that is unmatched in any other major sport." That's according to a lengthy investigation by the Orange County Register. Are horse owners preventing a crack down? Is the series a hatchet job?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Vanessa Romo
LA School Report
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Scott Reid
Reporter for the Orange County Register
Rick Arthur
Equine Medical Director for the California Horse Racing Board
Ed Halpern
Executive Director of California Thoroughbred Trainers
The full episode
2 of 2Rampant Drug Abuse Reported on California's Race Tracks- 1:18Renewed Restrictions on Prison Overcrowding
- 5:50Rising Drug Use on California's Horse Racing Tracks?You’re reading this