Breeders’ Cup Weekend at Del Mar Opens With a Kill

Del Mar’s “Fall Meet” opened yesterday – with a kill. This from the track:

“We are sad to confirm that in today’s fifth race Esmeray suffered a catastrophic injury to her hind right leg. After evaluation by the attending veterinary team, she was humanely euthanized. Our deepest sympathies to everyone who cared for her.”

As if those “deepest sympathies” somehow cleanse their crimson-tinted hands. Sorry, not a chance. So what do you think, will the NBC personalities mention the dead horse during this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup coverage? Esmeray was five years old.

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  2. “deepest sympathies” on the money it will cost you to euthanize her, dispose of the carcass, loss of future income. Loss of her life… Meh.

  3. At the last year at our local track we participated in even the dedicated grooms that saved all the BC races on CD`s had 1 year they could not watch because of all the terrible breakdowns that year! We think that year was in the mid-90`s.

  4. The official statement reads like so many before it: sanitized, procedural, designed to move quickly past the reality of what happened. Esmeray wasn’t just “humanely euthanized.” She was another life lost in a sport that treats death as an acceptable cost of spectacle.

  5. I highly doubt that they would want to remind the betting public that racing is deadly by mentioning the carnage of the day before. They have already said their condolences or whatever you call it when they kill horses for racing and gambling.
    If things go as they usually do, they will have more very serious injuries during the “big” Breeders’ Cup races.
    They will be focused on the current day’s goings on.
    You know these things just happen and that the fatal injuries are just part of racing and gambling.
    You can’t bet on a dead horse, so what would be the point in mentioning the horse’s name that was killed? This seems to be the Modus Operandi of this inherently cruel so-called sport.
    After all, this industry is all about their so-called Hall of Fame and the millions of dollars involved in “winnings, earnings, purse money” when it comes to a talking point.
    That is why they will never have a WALL OF SHAME for everyone to see the thousands of racehorses killed by this so-called sport to remind everyone that racing is deadly.
    Their focus and talking points will be about the millions of dollars involved, not the sad, tragic, and abused lives of spent racehorses.

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