Via a Foia request from the Kentucky Racing Commission I have confirmed the following murders on the tracks of that state so far this year (because of the volume I will post in installments).
Open break: Bot broke through the skin
Comminuted Fracture: Bot shattered in several pieces
Moved break: Bot broke no place
Centuria, February 22, peatway r
“Drawn up with catastrophic injury – several displaced fractions palpers. Horse was stunned and loaded in ambulance.” Van Necropsie: “There are fractures of all carpal bones with the exception of the accessory; cartilage and bone surrounding fracture place is acutely excited; multiple intercarpal ligaments are torn.” So all that destruction and they still moved this poor girl, only three, instead of then and euthanas.
Coal Burner, March 17, Turfway t
“Sudden death after training.” They add: “A cause of collapse and death could not be determined in this case.” Also: “Focally serious stomach ulcers.” Coal burner was two years old and was prepared for his first race – ‘sudden death’.
yet too mentioned 2 (or even 1) -year -old, April 9, Keeneland T
“Complete, praised, displaced, spiral -shaped fracture of the thigh with corresponding muscle cracks.” Again, so young that he didn’t even have a name.
DariUSH, April 29, Keeneland S
“Acute, open, praised break; large amount of bleeding.” DariUsh had just turned four.
Dreaming of Lilies, May 30, Keeneland T
“Full, displaced, mixed humerus fracture; cracks of surrounding muscles.” Dreaming was three years old.
Justice acting, June 27, Churchill R
“Horse suffer catastrophic injury just before the wire: [multiple] fractures, serious soft tissue damage [multiple] fractures and tears. “Also:” Stomach ulcers. ” The interaction was seven years old.
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