5-year-old Big Note collapsed and died of “an apparent cardiac event” after yesterday afternoon’s 2nd race at Santa Anita. The complicit: jockey Drayden Van Dyke, trainer Javier Jose Sierra, owner Hugo Catalan, breeder Willow Tree Stud Farm, and all prior…
Reflective Glory, two days past her third birthday, broke down (fractured cannon bone) in yesterday’s 6th race at Emerald. She is dead. The complicit: jockey Anne Sanguinetti, trainer Jeffrey Metz, owner Saratoga West, breeder Harris Farms, and previous trainer Sean…
3-year-old (barely) Stadtpark, running for just the second time, broke down and died in Thursday afternoon’s 4th race at Santa Anita. The young gelding was ridden by Ignacio Puglisi, trained by Paul Aguirre, owned by the Cuevas family et al.,…
Yesterday afternoon at Churchill Downs, Never Tell Lynda died after banging her head prior to the 1st race. Apparently, the 5-year-old mare was spooked by a loud commercial, including the sound of a gate bell, on the track’s giant screen.…
3-year-old See the Music “fell heavily” and died during the 7th race at Belmont yesterday, a victim of “an apparent heart attack.” Dead of a heart attack at three. That See the Music fell can only be known through the…
5-year-old Summa Cum Boom is dead after breaking down near the quarter pole of yesterday’s 3rd race at Parx. For this mostly career claimer, oblivion. The complicit: jockey Jacqueline Davis, who rode Caillech’s Quest to premature death on Sunday; trainer…
According to well-known equine advocate Deborah Jones, the Todd Pletcher horse who died while training Sunday at Saratoga was 3-year-old Lucky for You (below), not the previously deceased (and also Pletcher-trained) Onlyforyou. Some interesting parallels: both horses were created in…
In advance of last weekend’s Preakness, the HSUS’ Keith Dane penned an opinion piece for The Baltimore Sun. In it, he joins a choir of thousands in decrying racing’s drug culture, calling, yawn, for a national governing body akin to…
The following racehorses were casualties on American tracks last week: Tuesday Lil Ditty, Will Rogers, race 10, vanned off Wednesday Cryptolight, Presque Isle, race 5, vanned off Rhythm of the Moon, Suffolk, race 4, confirmed dead Portfolio, Thistledown, race 6,…
Two horses were killed in action Sunday afternoon: 4-year-old Caillech’s Quest “broke down in her left front” entering the stretch in Parx’s 4th race. The complicit connections: jockey Jacqueline Davis, trainer Michael Aro, owner Albert Tassone, breeder Hickory Tree Farm,…
This is what currently appears on the NYS Gaming Commission’s website: 2014 – Equine Death Only EQUINE DEATH Training 05/18/2014 Onlyforyou Saratoga Racecourse (NYRA) Horse: Onlyforyou Incident: EQUINE DEATH Racing Type: Thoroughbred Location/Type: Saratoga Racecourse (NYRA), 1/4 pole; Training Date:…
I have confirmed that 5-year-old Rhythm of the Moon was killed in the 4th race at Suffolk Downs Wednesday afternoon. The complicit: jockey Eddie Jurado, trainer Jose Ortiz, owner Fortunato Marbelt, breeder Little Everglades Ranch, and all priors. Ortiz, by…
