3-year-old Prayer Cloth is dead after breaking down while being trained at Laurel Park Tuesday, this according to the “Racing Manager” for PTK, the horse’s owner. Prayer Cloth’s two races and, ultimately, death were under trainer Dane Kobiskie. In a…
Saratoga, still several weeks from opening day, notched its second “casualty” of the year Tuesday when, according to the NYS Gaming Commission, 2-year-old Jay Bird “collapsed and died on the training track.” “Sudden death – possible cardiovascular event.” Oh, and…
Through a “New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act,” I have confirmed the following 32 deaths at Sunland Park in 2014: 2-year-old Chicks Luv Roses, January 4, Sunland 2 “shattered both [illegible] – put down on track” (chart merely said…
It was yet another afternoon of good, clean family entertainment at Parx yesterday (from the Equibase charts): In the 6th, Magic Soul “…weakened…returned bleeding…” In the 8th, San Gregoria “was pulled up in apparent distress just before the wire.” In…
The following horses were raceday casualties on American tracks last week: Reported as died, euthanized, or “broke down” – racing-speak for dead Hooked On the Lady, Penn Project Mayhem, Charles Town Sweet Silica, Golden Gate Maratik, Mountaineer Prince Ludovic, Winterthur…
I have confirmed that 9-year-old Project Mayhem is dead after breaking down in the 8th Friday at Charles Town. The notes for this one are particularly heartrending: “PROJECT MAYHEM was very reluctant to load, unseated the rider and ran off…
It really is this simple…
There is plenty wrong with this video: First, the abject suffering of the horse, 7-year-old Itzhoweeroll: lame, almost all the way around; malnourished, in part due to his teeth being “a mess”; beaten up – cuts, scrapes, ulcers; and criminally…
As a rule, the “Comments” next to the order of finish on the Equibase charts provide the relevant information, with the “Footnotes” section at the bottom of the page typically just a rehash. But not, often, with the Penn National…
The California Horse Racing Board reports that 5-year-old Diamond Flush is dead from a raceday injury – “ruptured suspensories” – sustained at Golden Gate on April 16. Connections on death day: Robert Hess Sr, Bert Lane, Agustin Orendain, and Schroeder…
