Cardinale’s run in the 6th at Delaware yesterday: “Cardinale showed the way in the three path…waited confidently in the two path…before receiving a right handed cue passing the quarter, drew away in upper stretch, but appeared to sustain an injury and fell around the 16th pole, then was transported off the track in an equine ambulance.”
The “right handed cue” that the “confident” Cardinale “received,” of course, was a whip lash. More important, however, the injury/fall ultimately resulted in death. We know this only because three jockeys were dislodged during a chain of events that included two other horses “trying to avoid a fallen foe.” (Injured jockeys make news, dead horses not so much.) But fear not, folks, for all three should be just fine; in fact, Cardinale’s, Martin Chuan, resumed his whip duties just two races later. Vile. Cardinale was four years old.
RIP, Cardinale.
If the horse was running strong and appeared to be confident, can we believe that the horse was being “treated so well” when only a short time later he suffered a tragic breakdown?
The idea that horses exploited for racing and Pari-mutuel gambling are treated so well is the lie people tell themselves until the facts become overwhelmingly obvious.
HRN reporting Cardinale was euthanized because of his injury. They have had no word on Silent Roar or Aspiring Comedian who fell over him. Replays at Delaware skips from race 5 to race 7.