The overall rate of fatal injury in 2022 was 1.25 deaths per 1,000 starts, down from 1.39 the year before. And on grass, there were 1,032 fatalities from 728,445 starts or 1.41 per 1,000 starts. During that same period, there were 6,036 fatalities on dirt from 3,242,505 starts or 1.86 per 1,000 starts. Statistics from The Jockey Club’s Equine Injury Database show the surface with the fewest deaths per 1,000 horses is synthetic.įrom 2009-2022, there were 534 fatalities on synthetic from 482,169 starts or 1.11 per 1,000 starts. Tiny Presque Isle Downs near Erie, Pennsylvania, has a Tapeta track. In 2015, Turfway Park near Cincinnati was the first track in North America to install Polytrack and five years later replaced it with Tapeta. Woodbine near Toronto switched from dirt to Polytrack and then to Tapeta in 2016. Gulfstream Park in Florida added Tapeta in 2021 to go with its dirt and grass courses.
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