She’s Quality, who was ambulanced off the Del Mar track in a Breeders’ Cup race yesterday, is dead. This from his trainer, Jack Davison:
“I am devastated to report that our stable star She’s Quality has passed away, having suffered a pelvic fracture during the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. After the race, she was transported to San Luis Rey Equine Hospital where she received the best possible care and appeared to be stable in the initial hours after. However, her condition declined overnight and the difficult decision was made to humanely euthanise her.
“We are utterly devastated at her passing. She was a high-class filly and she took us all on an amazing journey. Although this is a very sad ending, I would like to thank all of my staff for taking such great care of her over the past three years. We are a small, tight-knit yard and we will miss her terribly.”
Mr. Davison, you are “devastated” – sorry, “utterly devastated” – over your beloved filly’s “passing”? Sorry, I’m a bit confused. Aren’t you, and all who support this vile industry, responsible for said passing? The depravity of these people knows no bounds.
RIP, She’s Quality.
Exactly, I said that vet is lying when he was interviewed
I can only hope that the so-called “best of care” included some pain-killing medication for SHE’S QUALITY and that maybe she was put in a sling to relieve some of the pressure.
What kind of care is the “best of care” when the abusers themselves are the ones saying it???
Having a fractured pelvis had to have been excruciatingly painful, not only in her bone or bones, but also hours later when the muscles are spased (spasmed) out of whack changing the posture.
The pain in the muscles for me the next morning after having a mishap (in February 1987) that caused excruciating pain in my neck was an ordeal that takes too long to describe. It turned out that I had a hairline fracture in my fourth vertebra. Trying to peel myself out of bed the next morning was very painful. It took a lot tries to figure out how to get myself out of bed. I can only imagine what it is like for a horse to have a fractured pelvis. I wonder if they were trying to get her to stay alive for 72-hours so they could say she wasn’t a track death even though it would be obvious to a lot of people that SHE’S QUALITY was definitely a racetrack induced fatality.
This whole story was fishy. I watched the race live- it was clear something had gone dramatically wrong. Her whole back end dropped down. They released a statement that the jockey “pulled her up out of an abundance of caution”, then the trainer said she was being ambulanced straight to the hospital. Later, the regulatory vet downplayed everything, saying she was showing a little lameness in her right hind, but that she checked out ok, they couldn’t find anything, and she was back at the stable while they would watch her overnight. My heart breaks thinking that this poor mare possibly either slowly bled out because of her fracture or was standing in excruciating pain until that “humane” euthanization.