17 racehorses were killed in a barn fire at Saratoga Harness early Tuesday morning – a horror that is almost too great to contemplate. But while the industry and its apologists are falling all over themselves sending “prayers and condolences”…
I have confirmed that Public Defender, a “pulled up abruptly, left track in ambulance” at Gulfstream May 16, is in fact dead. She was five years old. Her final, complicit-in-the-kill exploiters: Miller Racing, Saffie Joseph, Miguel Vasquez.
According to the chart for the 9th at Santa Anita yesterday, Shangrilama “sustained an injury at the wire and was transported off the track via equine ambulance.” Typically, that word combination – injured/ambulance – portends death, and that’s exactly what…
Fine N Dandy was “scratched” from race 2 at Monticello yesterday for being dead. As yet, no details on the 5-year-old’s demise.
The 8th at Laurel yesterday: “Sharmin unseated her rider when beginning to duck out leaving the 3/16, veered out sharply colliding with an outrider’s pony, sustained a catastrophic injury and was euthanized on the course.” This happened, mind you, during…
The NYS Gaming Commission has just (today) disclosed a pair of training kills on NYRA tracks. Shiny New Object, they say, broke her humerus at Saratoga a week ago today and was euthanized where she lay. She had just turned…
Lanas Desire was killed – “breakdown at the 3/4 pole” – in the 4th at Monticello yesterday. He was 10 years old. His (final) exploiters: Michael Austin, Ralph Silvestri.
Two unidentified horses were killed in a head-on training collision at Parx Saturday. The only reason we know about this now (as opposed to when we file our FOIA) is because one of the riders has been hospitalized, and that…
Another day, another dead horse. According to the chart for the 1st at Gulfstream yesterday, Holy Spicy “went bad nearing the quarter pole…and had to be euthanized.” She was three years old. In her penultimate race – just 13 days…
Good Yegg in the 2nd at Hawthorne yesterday, in the cold, terse telling of the chartwriter: “Good Yegg broke slowly, sustained a catastrophic injury while racing on the far turn, was pulled up then euthanized on the course.” And that’s…
In the 6th at Churchill May 22, Coco Cool, said the chart, “pulled up then was transported off in an ambulance.” The KY Commission picks it up from there: “After diagnostics were performed, it was confirmed that the horse had…
The NYS Gaming Commission reports this for 4-year-old Just Clarity at Finger Lakes yesterday: “Horse expired in his stall after running loose during the overnight a.m. hours.” Left unexplained: how he was “running loose,” why he “expired.” Poor boy.
