4-year-old Showered is dead after falling in the 1st at Churchill Thursday evening. We know this not from the chart (just “vanned off”), and certainly not through Churchill Downs (its site merely said “Showered fell in the stretch”), but because…
The (Equibase) chart for the final race at Gulfstream yesterday: “Okeemeister fell [at the] top [of the] stretch, vanned off”; “Shere Khan fell over fallen rival, vanned off.” The “fallen rival,” the Daily Racing Form reports, was “put down.” Dead.…
The (Equibase) note from the 1st at Presque Isle yesterday: “FORS FORTIS was squeezed back at the start, trailed to the second turn, took a bad step, was pulled up and euthanized on the track.” And that, is that. Just…
From the “Radnor Hunt Races” (Malvern, PA) website: This year you can watch the racing excitement at Radnor Hunt in Malvern as the 86th Radnor Hunt Races are held on Saturday, May 21. Picture yourself standing in the middle of…
The 6th at Belmont Friday was Rock Show’s 51st “career” race. It was also her last, as the 6-year-old mare was euthanized back in the barn after being “vanned off” for an undisclosed injury. She is the 29th racehorse to…
A single day on America’s racetracks (flat-track only – harness not reflected; quoted material from Equibase)… View Tree “broke down” – confirmed dead (Charles Town 1) Homeboykris “collapsed…vanned off” – confirmed dead (Pimlico 1) Pramedya “broke down” – confirmed dead…
In the wake of yesterday’s kills at Pimlico, Racing shrugs… Sal Sinatra, Maryland Jockey Club (The Baltimore Sun): “Things do happen.” Roy Jackson, Pramedya’s breeder/owner (The Baltimore Sun): “We haven’t fully digested the whole thing. But life goes on.” And…
Two horses are dead (so far) at Pimlico this afternoon – Preakness Day. In the 1st race, 9-year-old Homeboykris, under the whip for the 64th time, “collapsed and died,” says Fox News, “after winning and having his picture taken in…
I have confirmed that Nite Thunder collapsed and died during the 9th at Charles Town last night. Collapsed and died…at three. This is horseracing.
Two Standardbreds are dead in NY: 10-year-old Tug River Dylan “collapsed and died on the track” (Gaming Commission) after the 1st race Sunday afternoon at Saratoga Raceway. “Possible cardiac event,” they’re calling it. Trainer, Normand Dessureault; driver, Stephane Bouchard. 12-year-old…
Horseracing kills horses – every day, scores over the course of a year. For an industry whose long-term economic outlook is ominous (see recent Newsweek piece “Horse Racing Fading in Revenue, Popularity”), this simple fact should in time help sound…
Dead: 4-year-old Financial, May 5 (his birthday) at Golden Gate – “had puncture wound that turned into an infection and was euthanized at trainer’s barn” (Stewards Minutes). 8-year-old Big Time Rocks, yesterday at Buffalo Raceway – “horse reared in stall…
