The following horses were scratched by the regulatory vet (i.e., their exploiters had every intention of racing them) at Churchill over just 5 days (Jun 18-22) for being “unsound”:
Musical Prayer
Nuts and Bolts
Ghostly Night
Going Streakin
Synthesis
Illini
Current Climate
Strategic Force
Jr’s Gift
And these horses were scratched by private vets for either “illness” or “injury”:
Charcoal Queen
Holiday House
Abdicate
American Blaze
W W Crazy
Midnight Muse
Risuko
Sunset Lines
Chryso Alogo
Eliza Vance
Iceatude
Accredit
Malibu Springs
Oh Really
Orizzonte
Breezing Along
Krispy Rice
Sanctify
B G Warrior
Desert Rhapsody
Majestic Drive
And the “claims” – that would be sales – of the following were voided when the horses in question finished their races physically compromised in one way or another:
Ethereal Road
Sight Adjust
Roussette
Honky Tonk Highway
And finally, this from the stewards:
“My Carrington returned lame and required the horse ambulance.” (The Equibase chart said nothing of this.)
This, too, is horseracing.
And still not a peep about Kinetic Control or the horse that broke down badly that was trained by Steve Asmussen. How very nice of them to act like the horses never existed.
Vile!
Always expect more sadistic cruelty to horses by greedy pieces of human garbage in Kentucky; but at least a regulatory veterinarian wasn’t totally asleep at the wheel as he/she/they were in New York State at Belmont allowing a horse with a (suspected) pelvic fracture to be run in a workout after a long layoff from being raced and NOT FLAGGED as injured, unsound or lame BEFORE being forced to carry the weight of a saddle and RIDER with a WHIP (and possibly a shocking device delivering how-many-volts of electricity to the injured horse’s body and torturing the poor horse to death).
I wonder how much the owners/ trainers/ jockeys/ etc would laugh if it were they who were being locked in a closet, as the starting gates are like a closet to a horse, and jabbed with a cattle prod to make them jump out fast…?!