After racehorse deaths at Fairmount, a trainer’s worst year

Cross-posted from St. Louis Today WRITTEN BY TODD FRANKEL Selected Excerpts COLLINSVILLE, Illinois -- Stall 67 was empty. It was being kept that way, a reminder of what went wrong. “Superstition,” horse trainer James R. Childers explained as he walked by the stalls that make up his stable on the backstretch at Fairmount Park Race…

Two jockeys injured, horse euthanized after collision at Fairmount Park

WRITTEN BY KEN LEISNER Cross-posted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch COLLINSVILLE -- A race horse was euthanized after a collision that injured two jockeys Tuesday during the third race at the Fairmount Park Race Track, a spokesman there said. The accident occurred just as the horses turned into the final stretch of the 5 1/2-furlong…