Chart notes from U.S. Thoroughbred and Quarterhorse races last week.
Keep Attacking “sustained injury, humanely euthanized” at Fairmount
Cool in Blue “vanned off” at Presque Isle
Imploding “fell, DNF” at Horseshoe
Run Daddy Run “fell, vanned off” at Louisiana
Metatron “vanned off” at Saratoga
Champagne Juan “vanned off” at Saratoga
Hercules “taken off in equine ambulance” at Churchill
San Juan Hill “vanned off” at Evangeline
Budro Talking “vanned off” at Evangeline
J D’s Rude Boy “transported off via equine ambulance, euthanized” at Golden Gate
Eria Vittata “hit rail, DNF” at Lone Star
Damianns Rocket “vanned off” at Ruidoso
G Munning “transported off in horse ambulance” at Saratoga
Ministry of Magic “pulled up lame, vanned off” at Charles Town
Extra Money “vanned off” at Delaware
Talktomejustice “vanned off” at Fairmount
Kingfish Stevens “vanned off” at Gulfstream
Value Engineering “transported off via equine ambulance” at Monmouth
Precious Avary “returned bleeding from nostril” at Parx
Mist N Seven “vanned off” at Ruidoso
Kj Little Duce Coup “vanned off” at Ruidoso
Good Skate “transported by equine ambulance” at Saratoga
Gun Rush “went wrong, pulled up, was euthanized” at Hawthorne
Cruisin Lucy “transported off in equine ambulance” at Mountaineer
Aguila Rapida “vanned off” at Ruidoso
“Vanned Off”: Horse required equine ambulance to get off the track; while not all end up dead, most do, as borne out by our subsequent reporting. “Bled”: pulmonary hemorrhage.
No way the unfortunately-named Imploding could have survived. So it’s doubly suspicious that the Horseshoe Indy chartwriter completely avoided any and all mention of him after his “fall” (crash) on Wednesday. Jock is fine, apparently; rode two races later. So why not acknowledge your equine victim(s), Indy horse-killers?
Could it be that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has given the chartwriters and the racing commissioners the order to fudge the record so that it appears that fewer horses are being killed?
According to the recent headline/article about racehorse deaths being down, one would think HISA is achieving their alleged purpose and reducing the number of horses killed by racing, if you didn’t know better.
HISA, in my opinion, is continuing the industry motto and that is to mislead, deny, deflect, and deceive.
Yes, of course(!). I think HISA’s sole mission is to help its member tracks hide any and all horse injuries — especially fatal ones. (And, let’s face it, ALL racehorse injuries become fatal when their loving owners don’t want to pay for them.)
But I sincerely doubt poor Imploding even managed to get up at all. So why not come clean, admit his outcome, and allow Ol’ Myron to go shop for his next tax deduction?