California Horse-Racing Safety Crisis: What Newsom Proposed in 2019
In 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom called for stronger authority to suspend race-meet licenses after a series of horse deaths at Santa Anita Park. He did not announce a permanent statewide ban on horse racing. This article preserves the episode as a historical safety-policy timeline and corrects the original headline’s overstatement. The 2018–2019 Santa Anita…