Given the backdrop against which this year's cup was going to be held, it was corporate malpractice for the Breeders Cup to keep the event at Santa Anita. Coincidence or not, a horse has now been put down (immediately or from complications from an injury suffered on Cup Day) each of the last four times that the Breeders Cup was conducted at Santa Anita: Secret Compass (2013); Vicar's in Trouble (2014); Corona Del Inca (2016); and Mongolian Groom.
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