The Super-Optimized Dirt That Helps Keep Racehorses Safe
It began with Psychedelicat, a horse that would have remained unremarkable for the rest of his life, were it not for the precise timing of his death. Of the 17 races the four-year-old had run, he’d won two—which is probably why, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, he was entered in a claiming race:…