From the most recent Los Alamitos Stewards Minutes: “Post-time favorite Bookofmatches locked up behind and bobbled badly with an eighth of a mile before the finish [of the 5th race July 14]…humanely euthanized.” Bookofmatches was two; this was her fourth…
The NYS Gaming Commission reports that 3-year-old Charlonique was killed while training at Belmont yesterday. She is the 26th dead racehorse at a NYRA track (Aqueduct, Belmont, Saratoga) this year. But things are getting better, right? Oh, and the trainer?…
In the 5th yesterday at Saratoga, Macho Citizen was “vanned off” and, the Gaming Commission reports, subsequently euthanized. The two-year-old colt is the second kill at hallowed Saratoga this week. By the way, the chartwriter relays that Macho “got put…
In the latest Stewards Minutes from the California State Fair (Sacramento), 3-year-old Cadillac Express is reported as killed while training at Golden Gate: “bilateral fracture of left fore sesamoid with laceration of fetlock.” In addition, the Minutes list 16 “scratches”…
In the 4th at Delaware, says Equibase, My Giant “was being eased when he collapsed in the final sixteenth mile and died of an apparent heart attack.” My Giant was six, an age in which the typical horse is just…
Livid Luke at Monticello, July 22: “horse found unresponsive outside Barn A; believed to have escaped from stall and died during overnight hours” (NYS Gaming Commission) Livid Luke was 12 and was last raced on June 26. From Equibase’s account…
The Peter Miller-trained colt Bobby Abu Dhabi collapsed and died – the proverbial “sudden cardiac event” – today while training at Del Mar. To my knowledge, ’tis the first official kill of the Del Mar summer (which only began Wednesday).…
In the 7th at Louisiana yesterday, Wild Lil Rebel, according to the Equibase writer, “was pulled up soon after the start and euthanized.” Dead. Wild Lil Rebel was six and this was her 47th race, every single one of them…
In back-to-back races at Laurel Park yesterday (Equibase): In the 8th, “MARKEESA, four wide, ranged up to loom boldly in upper stretch, lost her rider after sustaining a catastrophic injury in mid stretch then was euthanized.” Markeesa was two; this…
This, from the 1st at Laurel yesterday afternoon (Equibase): “MINOR LEGEND bore out leaving the turn, pulled up lame in upper stretch and was euthanized.” “pulled up lame…euthanized” Minor Legend was six and under the whip for the 44th time.…
In reporting on another Kiaran McLaughlin-trained horse, the Daily Racing Form had this: “Meanwhile, McLaughlin said that Takaful, the winner of last year’s Grade 1 Vosburgh, was euthanized earlier this year due to an injury suffered following routine surgery. McLaughlin…
From the most recent Oak Tree at Pleasanton (California) Stewards Minutes: “PHANTOM FLYER, while working at Golden Gate June 27, spiral fracture mid cannon bone right hind leg; non weight bearing after swelling – euthanized.” In the 3rd race on…
