Overflow of Donations Leaves Workers Well Cared For

Donations bound for Del Mar accumulate at Santa Anita in a photo shared by Santa Anita's Amy Zimmerman on Twitter

With an excess of donated material items for displaced backstretch workers sent to Santa Anita in the wake of last Thursday's Lilac Fire, the track will no longer be accepting shipments arriving from across the country, it was announced late Monday. 200 CHRB licensed stable workers are temporarily housed in 160 rooms on the Del Mar backstretch, and Santa Anita had been functioning as an off-site staging area for donations. While material donations are no longer needed, the official GoFundMe page for the relief effort remains open for monetary donations to help with long-term relief for the affected workers, with over $615,000 contributed through Tuesday afternoon.

In one of the most high-profile relief efforts, Coolmore and Mike Repole's auction of a no guarantee season to leading third-crop sire Uncle Mo proved to attract a who's who of industry bidders. With the likes of Tom Van Meter, Tom Ryan, Ken Donworth, Joseph Allen, and Gary Barber competing for the high bid, the donation to the TCA and LNJ Foxwood's Horses First Fund had reached $95,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.

 

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