Yesterday at Golden Gate Fields, 3-year-old Steady Azshegoes was a vet-scratch prior to what was to be her very first race. And that – a floating question mark, just the way Racing likes to keep it – would have been…
From the NYS Gaming Commission: “Warranee Prince was euthanized on the track [Tioga Downs]…due to a broken leg.” He is (at least) the 14th Standardbred to die at a NY harness track this year.
I have confirmed the deaths of two horses on back-to-back nights at Charles Town: 3-year-old Helton in the 6th race Wednesday 4-year-old Added Reward in the 8th race Thursday How, in 21st Century America, do we continue to abide the…
The California Horse Racing Board reports that 6-year-old Peppy Bolly was euthanized for an injury sustained August 9th (race 9) at Del Mar. According to the Del Mar Stewards Minutes, this makes 12 dead at that track since the meet…
3-year-old Mondor is dead after breaking down in the 1st at Finger Lakes yesterday – euthanized, says the Gaming Commission, on-track. She is the 71st horse to die on or at a NYS racetrack this year. Please stop betting on…
This past Sunday at Ellis Park, a 2-year-old filly named Spooky Ghost was put to the whip for the very first time. Her official line from Equibase was “went wrong along the backstretch, lost rider, vanned off.” Since Kentucky is…
Racing’s apologists are fond of pointing to California’s new whip (actually it’s now called a “riding crop”) rule as evidence of an industry trying – progress. But putting aside the fact that the rule’s very existence is an admission that…
Through a “Public Records Act” request, I have confirmed the following 16 deaths at Florida racetracks in the second quarter of 2015: 4-year-old Starstruck Slew, April 1, Tampa Bay 6 5-year-old Gentleman’s Kitten, April 4, Gulfstream, training 2-year-old Empire’s Court,…
The following horses were casualties on American racetracks last week. Dead, “Humanely Euthanized,” “Broke Down” (racing-speak for dead): Silver Reward On a Snowy Evening “Vanned Off” (carted off by ambulance, good chance dead): Andariego Rock Summer Secret Bow Street Runner…
From the NYS Gaming Commission: Big Looie “sustained injury breezing on the Saratoga MT [this morning]. X-rayed. Euthanized.” Prior to dying, the 8-year-old was whip-raced 51 times. Arrogant Saratoga, by the way, has now killed nine since May 1.
4-year-old On a Snowy Evening is dead after breaking down (Equibase: “took a series of bad steps out of the starting gate”) in the 8th yesterday at Saratoga. Two races back, June 24 at Belmont, On a Snowy Evening “stumbled…
I have confirmed that 4-year-old Dead Ringer was euthanized after breaking down at Charles Town Saturday night (race 5). Also, the NYS Gaming Commission has disclosed the training death of 5-year-old It’s All Your Fault at Batavia Downs Sunday. Please…
