Last weekend’s Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita was a triumph of sport and spectacle. The Distaff was a nail-biter between fan favorites Beholder and Songbird; the Saturday races offered storylines and close finishes, with both Tepin and Lady Eli in action, along with a headlining showdown between California Chrome and Arrogate. The spectacular backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains provided no shortage of breathtaking landscape shots.

But in the middle of North American horse racing’s biggest day, the Breeders’ Cup got some uninvited attention, for showing a landscape of quite a different sort.

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