A Kill on Belmont’s Second Day

Well, it didn’t take long for what is now (based on the past five years’ data) the deadliest track in America to cart a dead “athlete” off the playing field. The “new and improved” Belmont Park, coming off all that pomp and circumstance of Opening Day Friday, hosted a kill yesterday, Day 2. Heat Missile, says the chart for the 2nd race, “suffered an injury…was pulled up then euthanized on the course.” This, after “dropping back while traveling a bit awkwardly” earlier in the race. The specific injury, says the Gaming Commission, was a “biaxial fracture with fetlock joint luxation.” This poor girl was four. Those mostly responsible: Gary Barber, Cayton Park Stud, Mark Casse, and Kendrick Carmouche.

Earlier in the New York Racing Association day, this for Fulmine while training at Saratoga: “injured at the wire after breezing…euthanized.” The 3-year-old was trained by Norm Casse, the aforementioned Mark’s son.

Two kills in one day – helluva job, NYRA.

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5 Comments

  1. The racing industry press will put the Casse father and son team of horse abusing pieces of dirt on a pedestal as though they are racing royalty.
    This is one of so many other examples of the phrase “that’s all you need to know about horseracing” even though the names of more horses will be forthcoming because the killing never stops. And that is yet again all you need to know about horseracing!

  2. Just read an interesting comment about the new Belmont Park. One of the commenters commented that on the international stage, horses were not seen as the stars or center piece of racing. The experience of the track & people attending / betting was the focus. Their view was that Belmont Park was just now catching up to the tracks overseas. Sad! We always thought of the horses as the center piece of racing! That`s why we became interested in 1977. After discovering the truth of this business we left in the fall of 2004. Yes, it took us awhile to realize the reality of the tracks.

  3. So much for the MILLIONS spent on improving the track! If one has to gambol there are better games to play than on this “Crooked,Crummy, Gamboling, Game”.

  4. So much for the wasted MILLIONS of $$ spent on improving the track surface! This industry is just plain wasteful of equine lives & people as well. If one has to play gamboling games there are better ones than using horses in this “Crooked, Crummy, Gamboling Game”

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