Each week, the casualties continue to mount, since most may not be able to recover, we can naturally assume they will be vanned off to slaughter as well.
The following racehorses were casualties on American tracks last week:
Monday
Visualiser’s Jewel, Will Rogers, race 5, “pulled up in distress,” vanned off
Tuesday
Shop Keeper, Sunland, race 7, vanned off
Wednesday
Rockinpop, Gulfstream, race 7, bled, DNF
Dukette’s Flame, Hawthorne, race 6, vanned off
Eight Stitches, Turf, race 3, vanned off
Tapits Wildcat, Turf, race 8, vanned off
Thursday
Renards Lapin, Aqueduct, race 2, “fell heavily past the wire,” bled, vanned off
Bluegrass Chat, Laurel, race 7, bled, DNF
Eyes a Stoli, Sam Houston, race 7, vanned off
Friday
Kern River, Fonner, race 2, broke down
Art of the Game, Gulfstream, race 8, broke down
Yu Tiger Yu, Hawthorne, race 6, vanned off
Suyeta, Oaklawn, race 5, “returned bleeding”
Avery’s Arabesque, Sunland, race 7, bled
Saturday
Coleman Barricks, Charles Town, race 3, “came back bleeding from the nose”
Potomac River, Fair Grounds, race 8, “pulled up in distress,” vanned…
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