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.
Mm Flying Eagle at Will Rogers
In the Queue at Belmont
Star Anise at Delta (also “bled”)
Bm Candi Royale at Lone Star
Highly Potent at Penn
Dottie Hinson at Santa Anita
Nothin Like You at Albuquerque
Ambition at Belmont
Soo Bronx at Los Alamitos
Lieutenant Dano at Remington
G Train at Remington
And then there were these, not reported as ambulanced but…
Jess Rowdy “fell, DNF” at Will Rogers
One Morerep “bled” at Finger Lakes
Malibu Miss “fell, DNF” at Charles Town
Prayer “fell, DNF” at Far Hills
Rotterdam “collided with fallen horse [above], DNF” at Far Hills
Anoint “fell, DNF” at Far Hills
Wild Acclaim “fell, DNF” at Keeneland
Note: “bled” is shorthand for pulmonary hemorrhage.
For any new confirmed kills from last week, see our running annual list.
Sue, we have had our horses clip our heels when walking ahead of them. At times we wish we had a tail to swish them back with. Of course no harm done to us as no speed involved. We have also been involved with our universities drill team many years ago & were amazed how few or no riders of our team including our advisor were aware of the danger of clipping heels when riding horses in close company!
At Far Hills on Saturday, October 17, 2026 in Race 2, a 5-Year-Old gelding named UNCLE BOSS is listed as a DNF on Equibase.
Rick- per Twitter reports, the sucky jockey (Steve Assmussen’s son, Keith) made the horse clip heels and fall. Horse supposedly walked off.
My horses have literally never clipped heels and fallen over or because of each other in the pasture when they’ve been running around. Another example of the pain and damage racing inflicts on its victims.
What happened to Wild Acclaim at Keeneland? I’m watching this track closely since the Breeders Cup is there in a couple of weeks.
Far Hills, don’t tell me, will be announcing what a good/great time was had by all, the hundreds of thousands of dollars in purse money, and any horse that was injured will be swept under the rug. If a jockey was injured badly, that might be mentioned.