Once Again No Fatal Injuries at Oklahoma Dirt Track

For the second year in a row Saratoga Race Course‘s Oklahoma dirt training track has maintained a gold standard for equine safety.

Open from April through mid-November, the dirt track once again had no catastrophic injuries during 7,037 timed workouts over the surface.

In 2023, there were 7,444 timed works without a fatal injury, bringing the total to 14,481 works for the last two years.

“Any time you see numbers as low as this it’s a positive,” said Andrew Offerman, the New York Racing Association’s senior vice president of racing and operations.

There was one fatal injury on the Oklahoma turf course, which also had no fatalities in 2023.

In terms of dirt and turf works at the Oklahoma facility, there was just one fatality injury in 2023-24 during 18,305 works.

“The capital put into redoing Oklahoma (in 2021), changing the surface  and widening it, has been a benefit to the horsemen and to us…