After 12 deaths at track and emergency meetings over the safety of the horses, Churchill Downs will move the rest of its Spring Meet to Ellis Park.
"We support Churchill Downs' request to transfer remaining dates to Ellis Park," Morris said."Our horsemen and owners can adapt to enable a thorough review."at the track, and on Friday it said they will continue to be enforced when the Spring Meet moves to Ellis Park.Horses will be restricted to four starts during a rolling eight-week period.
Pause of track-based incentives including trainer start bonuses and pay-out allocations to every race finisher. Only the top five finishes will receive payouts. Churchill Downs is talking with horsemen about what will happen to the funds previously given to lower-placed finishers. Joseph was suspended indefinitely from Churchill in the wake of Parents Pride and Chasing Artie's deaths. Necropsies were performed on both horses at the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostics Lab. The release of the results of the necropsies has been delayed in part because of the ongoing investigations into all the horse deaths.
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