In the 8th at Finger Lakes Tuesday, Big Brad Soldier “fell” (replay scrubbed, of course) and, said the chartwriter, was subsequently “vanned off.” In fact, the “van” was simply hauling a dead horse, for, it turns out, Big Brad was euthanized where she lay for a shattered cannon. (Finger Lakes is one of those tracks that is deliberately deceitful.) Big Brad was just three, and this was her very first time under the whip. The complicit: owner/trainer Jeffrey Englehart, breeder Carlo De Thomasi.
Also, the Gaming Commission reports (belatedly) that 4-year-old Winter Son was felled training at Saratoga a week ago today. Complicit: owner/trainer Marcelo Arenas, et al.
This is horseracing.
Boy it’s been a few weeks since we have heard from the horse-killing Engleharts.
They don’t disappoint in keeping their status of one of the top horse killers on the NYRA circuit.
Yesterday Finger Lakes 4th race a disaster and rest of races canceled. Oscar Gomez hurt…also John Velaquez at Saratoga a problem at the gate.
The more I read about the whipping and killing of horses, the more I feel like all the horseracing joints should be shut down for good!