“Complete, clearly displaced, acclaimed fracture of the sixth lumbar vertebra. Spinal cord spent, with severe muscle cracks and cracks of blood vessels.” – Afs limits

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

Spirit Animal, January 18, Turfway t
“Exercise-associated sudden death.” Also: “Extensive ulcerated stomach.” Spirit, eight, was also noted “very agitated” before he collapsed and died.

Penny’s Smile, March 8, Keeneland T
“Sudden collapse and death after surgery of the break repair [the surgery, by the way, involved 10 screws]. “Also noted:” Stomach ulcers, tapeworms in the cecum. “Then this is:” Palmar osteochondral disease is a recognized predisposing lesion for condylar fractures in thoroughbred running, as proven in this case. Moreover, repetitive stress lesions are often symmetrical, as proven in this case. ” Penny’s was three. Three.

Home Team, March 17, Sandy Ridge R
“Walked catastrophic injury, about 75 meters from the finish, went down, struggled to get up, could not use rear limbs.” Necropsie: “Complete, clearly moved, supposed breaking of the sixth lumbar vertebra. Spinal cord spent, with severe muscle cracks and cracks of blood vessels. Extensive apertatic bleeding.” Also: “Grade-2 swear disease.” Home team had just turned three.

She prefers gold, March 23, Keeneland T
“Abruptly picked up at 1/16 Pole: extensively praised, biarticular fractures of the first and second fingers; clear amount of bleeding.” Also: “Extensive ulceration of the stomach.” She prefers three and was prepared for her first race.

Son of Thunder, April 22, Keeneland S
“104 fever, depressed, diarrhea. Started with attack -like activity, was adjacent and died in Shedrow.” Cause: “Cecal perforation and peritonitis; widespread bleeding.” Son was seven and was last raced on March 28.

Bo Cruz, May 19, Churchill S
“Colic.” (This came without a necropsia.) Bo was five.

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