The following horses were injured in U.S. races last week and had to be removed from the track by “equine ambulance.” While fates remain unknown at this time, please know we will eventually get kill confirmations on many if not most via our FOIA reporting.
Elusive Power at Will Rogers
Favorite Bandit at Horseshoe
Catire Vizcaya at Parx
No Reserve at Aqueduct
Lawyer Up Riley at Charles Town
Threeoneniner at Oaklawn
Royals Money H at Sam Houston
If You Want It at Turf (also “collapsed”)
Shake of the Reins at Evangeline (also fell – video here)
Doctored Deal at Evangeline
Gunesh at Gulfstream
Ruddy Buddy at Laurel
Ms Carroll County at Oaklawn
Volatile Situation at Aqueduct
Dick Best at Oaklawn
West Texas Royalty at Remington
Jay W at Remington
Cyber Command III at Remington (this one and two above in same race)
Kid Kaos at Tampa Bay
Northern Chill at Keeneland
Point Blank at Oaklawn
Built Tuff Nd Fun at Sunray
Ole Slew Foot at Sunray (same race as above)
And then there were these victims, not reported as ambulanced, but…
Flashy Okie “collapsed, DNF” at Will Rogers
Autie “appeared to have bled [pulmonary hemorrhage]” at Oaklawn
Scorpius “fell, DNF” at Middleburg
Kiona “fell, DNF” at Tampa Bay
Cloud Number Nine “bled [pulmonary hemorrhage]” at Keeneland
Campaign Mischief “hit rail, DNF” at Laurel
For any new confirmed kills from last week, see our running annual list.
Regarding the steeplechase races, is it possible to report specific abuses to the local law enforcement in Maryland? If people can get the cruelty to horses documented in print and photographs and their own videos, that would be something.
Otherwise, the people at the National Steeplechase Association could say it didn’t happen.
How special do the people at the National Steeplechase Association think they are? They must be called out every time horses are injured for providing a platform for horses to be injured and sometimes fatally injured!
I have taken to watching the steeplechase races since the NSA is now hiding their reports, which included injuries and fatalities in the past.
At the Grand National in MD on Saturday, as the horses were approaching a fence, one of the horses swung out and then veered back into another horse running at full speed. It knocked both of them off their feet. They luckily both got back up, but we will most likely never know if there were any consequences as the result of that collision.
In the last race of the day, a horse that was leading fell at the last fence. Of course the camera quickly zoomed away, then it seemed like there were a lot of people watching what was going on, and some people were running, which is never a good sign. Again, most likely we will never know what actually happened, as the NSA wants to be as least transparent as possible, since their feelings were hurt last year. Not sure how that is allowed, but the world of racing sure seems to make their own rules up as they go.