Santa Anita’s experiment of placing a similar version of Historical Horse Racing at the race track on Thursday came to an abrupt halt on Saturday afternoon when law enforcement officials physically removed the machines after racing ended.
Two officials at Santa Anita confirmed that representatives of the state Department of Justice removed the betting machines that were installed on Wednesday and have been confiscated and removed from the track.
According to eyewitnesses a representative of the Arcadia Police Department, along with several law enforcement officers with patches that read “California Department of Justice Attorney General,” came into the grandstand area where the Racing on Demand machines were located and unplugged them, placed them on handcarts and removed them from the building…