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Post by Twinkle (My Sweet Angel) on Nov 5, 2019 7:58:54 GMT -5
List of Breeders' Cup Fatalities
Mr. Nickerson (M)- 1990 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Belmont Park. He had a heart attack in the backstretch.
Shaker Knit (M)- 1990 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Belmont Park. He fell over the above horse & injured his spine.
Go For Wand (F)- 1990 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Belmont Park. She broke her leg in the homestretch.
Mr. Brooks (M)- 1992 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Gulfstream Park. He fractured his right foreleg & tried to keep galloping before falling heavily on his jockey.
Spanish Fern (F)- 2000 Filly & Mare Turf at Churchill Downs. She came out of the starting gate too hard & fractured the left side of her pelvis & went into shock from pain & internal bleeding. The bleeding was stopped, but she started bleeding again & couldn't be saved.
Exogenous (F)- 2001 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Belmont Park. She spooked when coming out of the tunnel leading into the track. She flipped over & fractured her skull. Vets tried to stop the bleeding, but ultimately she couldn't be saved.
Landseer (M)- 2002 Breeders' Cup Mile at Arlington Park. He broke his right leg so severely he couldn't be saved.
Funfair (M)- 2005 Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park. He fractured his cannon bone in the backstretch.
Pine Island (F)- 2006 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs. She had a severely dislocated left front ankle.
George Washington (M)- 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. He had an open fracture to his cannon bone & both sesamoid bones in the right front fetlock.
Rough Sailing (M)- 2010 Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs. He broke his shoulder.
Secret Compass (F)- 2013 Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. She fell & suffered a lateral condylar fracture with dislocation.
Corona Del Inca (F)- 2016 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Santa Anita. She sustained condylar, sesamoid & pastern fractures in her right front leg.
Mongolian Groom (M)- 2019 Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita. He broke his left hind leg up & down & couldn't be saved. |
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Post by Γtheling on Nov 5, 2019 11:02:24 GMT -5
 So sad, and so confusing, that so many horses are injured and need to be put down. 
I furgot to say, I don't think you're crazy at all, Twinkle, for thinking those races may be cursed. Those of us who watch or especially go to those races should start praying protection over those horses before the race begins.
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Post by Athena (In Memory) on Nov 5, 2019 13:36:25 GMT -5
We remember the 1990 Breeders' Cup races. Seemed like there was a horse injured in every race. Go for Wand was a real heartbreaker -- right up there with Ruffian.
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Post by Twinkle (My Sweet Angel) on Nov 6, 2019 9:41:49 GMT -5
Mommy was a HUGE Go For Wand fan. She's seen a lot of horses break down over the years, but that one haunted her the most. It was so graphic & it happened right in the frontstretch. Cameramen showed everything too, even the aftermath. They got behind the screen & took pictures & posted them online. Sickening! When the races were over & they were showing ending credits, they even showed her breaking down then. I mean, seriously! Back then they showed WAY too much & now they barely mention it or act like it didn't even happen. They need to find a good middle ground.
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Post by Γtheling on Nov 6, 2019 10:52:02 GMT -5
That is awful that they did that, Twinkle And like you said, this time, they ignored it
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Post by Twinkle (My Sweet Angel) on Nov 7, 2019 10:29:33 GMT -5
Mommy just read an interesting article in the San Diego Union Tribune from August 14th. She's going to put in red the parts that she feels really explains a lot & put in bold what she feels REALLY explains even more. Here's what Mongolian Groom's trainer had to say about him: Speaking bluntly, Ganbat said of Groom, βI would hope he would come up in the show (money for the Pacific Classic). For my opinion, this is not a great horse. This is a very good allowance horse. Heβs not a very fast horse.β Ganbat laughed and said, βWeβre just pushing him β¦ βgo, go, please, we need the money!β β
Here's the latest from the Paulick Report: The Thoroughbred Daily News reported Wednesday that Mongolian Groom's connections maintain the horse, who was fatally injured in the Breeders' Cup Classic, was sound going into the race.
Dr. Vince Baker, Mongolian Groom's regular veterinarian, said the horse's workout Oct. 27 triggered an episode of tying up, which resulted in tight back muscles. Baker said the horse's tying up episode was treated and Breeders' Cup veterinarians monitored his workouts and examined him Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and as of Thursday before the race deemed him βcompletely normal.β
A story published yesterday on the Paulick Report drew attention to videos of the horse's workouts, including a video from Thursday, Oct. 31 that veterinarians say indicated lameness in the horse's hind end. The TDN story also quoted Mongolian Groom trainer Enebish Ganbat, who said the horse always took time to warm up at the jog.
Baker, like other treating veterinarians at Stronach Group tracks, is required to sign an authorization form certifying his patient is sound to compete in a race.
Baker also revealed the intra-articular injections the horse received two weeks before the race were hyaluronic acid and triamcinalone in his hocks, which he said had no impact on the horse's fatal injury. Although an intra-articular injection will put a horse on the California Horse Racing Board veterinarian's list for five days, The Stronach Group does not permit intra-articular corticosteroids closer than two weeks prior to race day.
It seems to me that his trainer didn't think very much of him & kept pushing & pushing him to be faster & pushed him past his limit. All Mongolian Groom was to him was a cash cow, it seems. He was deemed not good enough by his trainer, so he wasn't cared about like he should have been & was pushed too hard. Well, this certainly explains a lot in my opinion.
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Post by Athena (In Memory) on Nov 7, 2019 12:20:16 GMT -5
Yep. And, unfortunately, this is true of all race horses that aren't considered "super star class". When Mom lived in Chicago, she boarded her horse next to a veterinarian who was one of the vets for Standardbreds (harness horses) at Sportsmans', Hawthorne and Maywood race tracks. Now these horses are trained differently than thoroughbreds, with slower speeds to build up their endurance, but none of these horses were upper class. Some trainers were good guys and some weren't. Some wouldn't even call the vet when their horses had health problems and many wouldn't pay the vets. Mom's vet friend would feel so sorry for the horses, he would still give them medical treatment and that left him so much in the red that he left the horse racing world and moved to another state and went into private practice.
So much is wrong with racing -- racing 2-year old babies, drugging, use of whips and putting jockeys in extreme danger when they ride drugged horses with health problems.
But then, all breeds of horses are being severely abused and their breed associations do nothing about it. Forget about the Federal government doing anything, all these years they haven't done anything, not only for horses but dogs, cats, exotic animals, etc.
A big start would be stop all drugging in horses that are racing. No other countries allow drugging. And many race injuries can be treated with TIME OFF -- sometimes months and even a year, but trainers don't want to wait.
Yeah, it's business as usual with Mongolian Groom already forgotten.
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Post by Twinkle (My Sweet Angel) on Nov 7, 2019 13:13:15 GMT -5
Yet again, I 100% agree with you. Mommy has never approved of using whips & has always wished they'd ban them. Animals typically get treated as much lower class citizens than humans.
Mommy never looked at me as a "pet". She hates that term. She always looked at me like a daughter. She often refers to me as her little girl. She has loved animals her whole life & it really hurts her the way she sees animals being treated. Everyday there's more stories online about animal abuse. It just never ends.  |
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had a real problem with trying to get back in. So, I just been coming more often than before. I want to stay logged in so, when I close my laptop for the day or evening, I will be back in without interference thank U
it'll take me some time to get back to what I enjoy.