Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.
Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths"a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”
“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”“The takeaway is, the track is very safe,” Carstanjen said Thursday on an earnings call with CDI investors. "What we needed to do was spend some of this time in the interim, while we ran the rest of the meet at Ellis to just go soup to nuts through every single thing we do at the racetrack. There was nothing that jumped out as an apparent cause of the injuries, of the breakdowns; and, as we went through and rebuilt our processes from the ground up to check everything that we do to make extra sure, we didn’t find anything material.
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