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UPDATE -- I'll Have Another will not lead the post parade for the Belmont Stakes as originally planned. Instead, the NYRA will hold a retirement ceremony for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner after the running of the Woodford Reserve Manhattan so fans can see him and pay tribute. JOE DRAPE, writing for The Rail… Continue reading I’ll Have Another scratched due to injury, loses chance at the Triple Crown
In a letter to the New York Racing Association, New York governor Andrew Cuomo calls for the organization to hire an independent investigator to look into the deaths of 16 horses [UPDATE: The number has risen to 20] since racing began on the inner-dirt track November 30th of last year. The number includes a horse… Continue reading NY Governor Andrew Cuomo makes inquiry into racehorse deaths at Aqueduct
The second Thoroughbred drops from the Kentucky Derby trail because of injury. Is this happening even earlier than last year, and are more horses doomed to follow? The Blood-Horse reports: Darley Stable's Out of Bounds, winner of the Sham Stakes (gr. III) in only his third career start, suffered a condylar fracture of the left… Continue reading Out of Bounds out of the Derby, suffers condylar fracture in workout
The Blood-Horse reports that Algorithms is off the Derby trail due to a "fractured splint bone" revealed in an x-ray of the colt's right front leg. Algorithms is the first horse off the 2012 Kentucky Derby trail. Can we expect more? Sadly we can if last year is anything to go by. A number of… Continue reading Algorithms injured, first horse off the 2012 Derby trail
The deaths of two horses and injuries overshadowed racing at Hollywood Park on Saturday. In the $100,000 Vernon O. Underwood Stakes won by Pacific Ocean, runner-up Irrefutable collapsed and died just after he was unsaddled. Track officials said the 5-year-old, one of three horses in the race for trainer Bob Baffert, probably had a heart… Continue reading Horses injured and two die at Hollywood Park
Cross-posted from Inside Portland from The Oregonian By ANNE SAKER for The Oregonian ON A SUNDAY in late December, a 4-year-old mare fractured her left front knee while running the sixth race at Portland Meadows. The next day, a 5-year-old gelding fractured his shoulder in the third race. The horses had to be euthanized. Joe… Continue reading Portland Meadows grapples with horse injuries (US)
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