A horse educated by Bob Baffert was euthanized on the observe after taking place with damage and unseating his jockey throughout a race on the Preakness undercard on Saturday.
Hours earlier than the second leg of the Triple Crown, favourite Havnameltdown buckled ahead and threw jockey Luis Saez off his again through the sixth race and continued operating across the closing flip in some misery. The 3-year-old colt was checked out by veterinary workers earlier than being euthanized.
Saez was acutely aware and brought to a hospital for analysis, complaining of leg ache, the observe introduced. He was attended to by medical personnel on the observe for a number of minutes earlier than being placed on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
The fatality comes on one other main race day, within the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby being overshadowed by the deaths of seven horses at Churchill Downs over a span of 10 days.
Havnameltdown, the favourite at 4-5 and breaking from the within No. 1 submit, was bumped out of the gate by No. 2 Ryvit and broke a step gradual.
Fans within the crowd at Pimlico Race Course gasped when the horse stumbled earlier than the ultimate flip and tossed Saez. In an incongruous scene, on the similar time Saez and Havnameltdown had been being checked out, 2Pac’s “California Love” continued blaring from infield audio system arrange proper close to the place it occurred.
Meanwhile, on Pimlico’s homestretch, the horse was introduced underneath management by observe workers, then led behind some black limitations.
Baffert has horses operating on Preakness weekend for the primary time in two years after getting back from a suspension stemming from 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s failed drug check. He was not capable of enter horses within the Derby both of the previous two years as a part of a call by Churchill Downs. He couldn’t have any within the 2022 Preakness or Belmont due to a 90-day ban in Kentucky revered by Maryland and New York.
One of his horses, Arabian Lion, gained an earlier race. Baffert can be set to saddle National Treasure within the Preakness.
Saez, a Panamanian who turned 31 on Friday, initially was speculated to trip high contender First Mission within the Preakness. But that horse was scratched on the recommendation of veterinarians due to a difficulty together with his left hind ankle.
At the 2019 Kentucky Derby, Saez rode Maximum Security throughout the road first, however stewards revoked the victory and dropped the colt to seventeenth for impeding the paths of a number of horses. Saez then was suspended, accused of inflicting the interference.
Earlier this 12 months, he was aboard Kentucky Derby champion Mage for a runner-up end on the Florida Derby. At Churchill Downs two weeks in the past, Saez’s horse, Tapit Trice, got here in seventh within the Derby.
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