The following were casualties at the Penn National racetrack during the 197-night 2013 meet. Equibase officially confirms 8 dead. Of the 45 horses listed as “broke down” or “vanned off,” 42 have not raced since. A former racing insider and…
Shedrow Secrets Hestosmartforyou By Joy Aten and Jo Anne Normile (author of “Saving Baby”) In the fall of 2003, with track licenses as “vendors,” we were doing our weekly walk of the shedrows in the backstretch barn area of Great…
The following, unless otherwise noted, were “vanned off” American tracks last week. Monday: Wishingonastar, Aqueduct, race 7 Tuesday: Bounce Twice, Beulah, race 3 Mystery Taste, Beulah, race 7 (confirmed dead) Western Pine, Sunland, race 7 La Capitana, Turf, race 4…
The following horses broke down on American racetracks yesterday. All, most likely dead. 5-year-old mare Actin Lucky, Charles Town race 7 (trainer Henry Worcester IV, owner Worcester Investments) 4-year-old mare Diplomatic Gal, Charles Town race 7 (trainer Walter Shauf, owner…
Through a call to Penn National’s racing office, I have confirmed that 3-year-old The Mikester, listed as “broke down” during Thursday’s 1st race, did not survive. The gelding was trained by Steven Brown and owned by Michael Leach.
From the UK comes word that 10-year-old Thoroughbred Mad Moose (below) has been “banned” by the British Horseracing Authority for, as Horse & Hound (1/13/14) puts it, “being reluctant and refusing to race one too many times.” In his last…
Through a phone call to the racing office, I have confirmed that Mystery Taste, listed as “broke down, vanned off” Tuesday at Beulah Park, is, in fact, dead. The 6-year-old career claimer was running her 53rd race, a $2,000 claiming…
St Nicholas Abbey, a much-celebrated former champion, has died from colic. As previously covered, the 6-year-old Irish Thoroughbred underwent several procedures – which included 20 screws, 2 plates, a steel pin, and a bone graft – after breaking his pastern…
Go Canes Go, a 3-year-old gelding who could not finish his last race on December 29th (and came in second-to-last, 15 1/2 lengths back the start before that), broke his leg yesterday while breezing at Belmont and was killed on-track.…
The following, unless otherwise noted, were “vanned off” American tracks last week. Monday: Stolicknaya, Hialeah, race 1 (not vanned but “bloody RF hoof” after “stumbling badly”) Blonde for Ever, Parx, race 3 (confirmed dead) Clodhopper, Turf, race 3 (“broke down”)…
Yesterday afternoon at slippery Freehold Raceway in New Jersey, the pace car lost control soon after the start of the 5th race and swerved, gate extended, into six horses, the last flipping onto the vehicle. Though an “initial inspection,” according…
Two horses were killed last night at Delta Downs. In the 1st race, a maiden claiming, 2-year-old Casey Lynn “took a bad step mid stretch.” Dead before her third birthday. (Racing advances all ages on January 1st, but Casey Lynn…
