The full chart note for Cold Plunge at Mountaineer last night: “Cold Plunge was injured after the wire and euthanized on track.” And that’s that. This poor boy was five; ’twas his 26th time under the whip. The responsible: breeder Head of Plains, owner Gage Pinkerton, trainer John Brown, jockey Kyle Gilbert. Pinkerton, by the way, had offered CP up for sale (for only $4,000) immediately before he was killed.
Then this – what the announcer called a “multi-horse spill” – from Horseshoe yesterday. Although the chart said all three of the fallen – Deerfield, Bon Temps, Clear the Beach – “walked off,” that does not necessarily mean all survived.
Yes, Sue…I’ve said this countless times and will say it until I die – #HorseRacing and ALL that it entails set horses up for bad endings. Ever see horses in the wild run up on each other’s heels? – no, not unless they’re being chased by the BLM-hired helicopter. It’s ALWAYS the humans who set them up for injury & death…
Race 8 replay in its entirety available. Hazelwood is hospitalized. The inquiry following the race lasted quite a while. Still no word on the poor horses truthful condition.
They wouldn’t dare show any video of the horses allegedly walking off the track.
This “spill” is being blamed on jockey Yedsit Hazelwood, for supposedly trying to squeeze his horse into a spot that he didn’t fit.
Jockeys again being stupid and risking the lives of the horses they are riding…