At least 46 racehorses at a training center in San Diego County were killed by flames or smoke inhalation in a particularly heartbreaking result of the fires raging through southern California. “We believe a small number of horses escaped from a trampled-down fence to the hills,” California Horse Racing Board spokesman Mike Marten told San Diego CBS TV News-8. She was airlifted to the UC-San Diego Medical Center and placed in a medically induced coma, the newspaper reported. “This is a tragic blow to the California Thoroughbred racing industry and of great sorrow to everyone,” Jack Liebau, vice president of the Los Alamitos Racing Association, said in a statement. “We express our sympathy to the owners, trainers, and caretakers of the horses victimized by this tragic event.”

Source: Huffington Post December 10, 2017 05:03 UTC