🌺🏇🌧️ Da Preakness Stakes Anodda Death Add to Triple Crown Cloud as Mage Looks to Continue Run 🌫️🐎🏆
One horse trained by Bob Baffert broke down and was euthanized in da sixth race on da Preakness undercard. Mage going up against six challengers, none from da Derby. Post time going be 7:01 p.m. Eastern. ⏰🌧️🐴
One horse trained by Bob Baffert wen get one fatal injury in one undercard race before da Preakness Stakes on Saturday, as da deaths stay haunting da road to da Triple Crown. Baffert wen come back to da Preakness afta serving one suspension foa one failed drug test by his 2021 Kentucky Derby winna, Medina Spirit, who wen die latah dat year. 💔🌧️🏇
Da death on Saturday wen add to da recent numba of horse fatalities ’round da Triple Crown races, afta seven horses wen die at Churchill Downs in da days leading up to da Kentucky Derby dis month. 💔🏇
Da colt, named Havnameltdown, wen go down ’round da far turn in da $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes, sending his jockey Luis Saez tumbling to da ground. Saez wen get taken off da track in one ambulance. Havnameltdown wen get euthanized by veterinarians on top da racetrack afta da team led by Dr. Dionne Benson, chief veterinary officer foa da company dat own Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, wen examine him. 🏥💔🐴
“During da subsequent evaluation, she wen notice one non-operable left fore fetlock injury,” da company, da Stronach Group, wen say in one statement, referring to one joint in da horse’s foreleg. “Because da injury stay real bad and prognosis no look good, Dr. Benson and her team wen make da difficult decision foa humanely euthanize Havnameltdown.” 💔🌧️🩺🐴
Saez wen go Sinai Hospital in Baltimore foa further evaluation afta complaining about leg pain. Da company wen say he stay in stable condition and stay awake. 🏥🌧️🩺🏇
Da colt, one 3-year-old, wen win four out of his six starts and wen make ova $700,000 in purse money. In February, he wen finish second in da Saudi Derby in Saudi Arabia. 💰💰💰🌧️🐴
“We neva get any problems with him,” Baffert wen say. “We take care of these horses so much, but still dis kine ting happen. Stay so disheartening. I feel so bad foa dat horse and I just hope Luis stay OK.” 🌧️💔🐴
Baffert, one Hall of Fame trainer, stay ready foa come back to da Triple Crown stage latah on Saturday afta he wen get banned from da Preakness last year. His colt National Treasure stay da 3-1 morning line favorite foa da Preakness and could give Mage, dis year’s Kentucky Derby winna, one tough challenge. 🌧️🏆🐴
Baffert wen get suspended afta Medina Spirit wen fail one drug test afta winning da 2021 Kentucky Derby. Medina Spirit wen still get foa run in da Preakness dat year but wen finish in third place. Da colt wen die in December, possibly from one heart attack, veterinarians wen say. Baffert wen serve one suspension dat Kentucky regulators wen give him and one two-year ban from da Derby and Churchill Downs. Last year, Baffert wen serve his Kentucky suspension during da Triple Crown, so da racing commissions in Maryland and New York wen block him from da Preakness and da Belmont. 🌧️🔒🏇
Afta da seven deaths at Churchill Downs before da Kentucky Derby, da officials foa da Preakness Stakes stay taking one cautious approach to da pre-race examinations. First Mission, da 5-2 second choice in da morning line, wen get scratched from da race early Friday morning cuz of one unspecified left hind-ankle injury. 🌧️🏥🔍🐴
Da extra scrutiny stay going to every horse dat stay competing at Pimlico dis weekend. Officials stay requiring two veterinary authorizations befoa one horse can run — one from da trainer’s private vet, da odda from da regulatory vet in da state wea da horse wen stay befoa coming to Baltimore. 🏥🔍🐴
Randy Gootzeit stay choke up and tears stay threaten foa come, but she like tell you ’bout how one big gray colt named Snowball wen bring back one couple of horse lovers to da track, and how dey wen get dea hearts broken. 🌧️💔🐴
Snowball, known on da track as Freezing Point, wen suffer one fatal breakdown from one broken bone in his left front ankle during one undercard race at Churchill Downs on May 6, becoming da seventh horse to die in one agonizing eight days leading up to da Kentucky Derby. Da deaths, wea we no know da cause yet, stay cast one dark cloud ova dis year’s Triple Crown and wen bring back questions ’bout da safety of da animals as da sport stay getting ready foa da Preakness Stakes in Baltimore dis Saturday. 🌧️💔🏇
But foa Gootzeit and her trainer Joe Lejzerowicz, da problems in horse racing stay jus’ one background foa dea private sorrow. 🌧️😔🏇
“We woulda do anything foa save him, but we couldn’t,” Gootzeit wen say. “We miss him so much.” 💔😔🐴
- Wild on Ice 3-year-old gelding
He wen injure his left hind leg during training and wen get euthanized
Da jockey foa dis tough Texas-bred horse, Ken Tohill, wen win moa den 4,100 races, but da gelding’s win in da Sunland Derby in March stay his first win in one graded stakes race. At 60 years old, Tohill stay going be da oldest rider in Derby history. “One gift,” dat’s how Tohill wen describe Wild on Ice one morning last month. He wen continue, “He stay get good bloodlines and his talent stay starting foa show.” 🌧️🏇💪🤠
- Code of Kings 3-year-old gelding
He wen flip in his paddock and wen break his neck
Dis son of Empire Maker stay get enough potential foa debut in Saratoga, but he neva live up to dat potential and neva finish higha den fifth place in six starts. Code of Kings stay getting saddled when he wen get mesmerized by da party lights at one D.J. booth, according to his trainer, and wen flip one time, two times, and, finally, one fatal third time. 🌧️💔🐴
Wea time stay da Preakness Stakes?
Post time foa da 148th Preakness Stakes stay 7:01 p.m. Eastern. ⏰🌧️🐴
Da telecast by NBC Sports stay already going on CNBC, and stay going shift to NBC at 4:30 p.m. You can also watch da coverage on Peacock ($4.99 per month). Or, you can follow along with The New York Times right here. 📺🌧️🐴
Da track, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, stay one mile and three-sixteenths long; da record, set by Farma Way in 1991, stay 1 minute 52 ⅖ seconds. 🌧️🏇🕒
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🌺🏇🌧️ The Preakness Stakes Anodda Death Adds to Triple Crown Cloud as Mage Looks to Continue Run 🌫️🐎🏆
A horse trained by Bob Baffert broke down and was euthanized in da sixth race on da Preakness undercard. Mage going up against six challengers, none from da Derby. Post time going be 7:01 p.m. Eastern. ⏰🌧️🐴
A horse trained by Bob Baffert wen get one fatal injury in one undercard race before da Preakness Stakes on Saturday, as da deaths stay haunting da road to da Triple Crown. Baffert wen come back to da Preakness afta serving one suspension foa one failed drug test by his 2021 Kentucky Derby winna, Medina Spirit, who wen die latah dat year. 💔🌧️🏇
Da death on Saturday wen add to da recent numba of horse fatalities ’round da Triple Crown races, afta seven horses wen die at Churchill Downs in da days leading up to da Kentucky Derby dis month. 💔🏇
Da colt, named Havnameltdown, wen go down ’round da far turn in da $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes, sending his jockey Luis Saez tumbling to da ground. Saez wen get taken off da track in one ambulance. Havnameltdown wen get euthanized by veterinarians on top da racetrack afta da team led by Dr. Dionne Benson, chief veterinary officer foa da company dat own Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, wen examine him. 🏥💔🐴
“During da subsequent evaluation, she wen notice one non-operable left fore fetlock injury,” da company, da Stronach Group, wen say in one statement, referring to one joint in da horse’s foreleg. “Because da injury stay real bad and prognosis no look good, Dr. Benson and her team wen make da difficult decision foa humanely euthanize Havnameltdown.” 💔🌧️🩺🐴
Saez wen go Sinai Hospital in Baltimore foa further evaluation afta complaining about leg pain. Da company wen say he stay in stable condition and stay awake. 🏥🌧️🩺🏇
Da colt, one 3-year-old, wen win four out of his six starts and wen make ova $700,000 in purse money. In February, he wen finish second in da Saudi Derby in Saudi Arabia. 💰💰💰🌧️🐴
“We neva get any problems with him,” Baffert wen say. “We take care of these horses so much, but still dis kine ting happen. Stay so disheartening. I feel so bad foa dat horse and I just hope Luis stay OK.” 🌧️💔🐴
Baffert, one Hall of Fame trainer, stay ready foa come back to da Triple Crown stage latah on Saturday afta he wen get banned from da Preakness last year. His colt National Treasure stay da 3-1 morning line favorite foa da Preakness and could give Mage, dis year’s Kentucky Derby winna, one tough challenge. 🌧️🏆🐴
Baffert wen get suspended afta Medina Spirit wen fail one drug test afta winning da 2021 Kentucky Derby. Medina Spirit wen still get foa run in da Preakness dat year but wen finish in third place. Da colt wen die in December, possibly from one heart attack, veterinarians wen say. Baffert wen serve one suspension dat Kentucky regulators wen give him and one two-year ban from da Derby and Churchill Downs. Last year, Baffert wen serve his Kentucky suspension during da Triple Crown, so da racing commissions in Maryland and New York wen block him from da Preakness and da Belmont. 🌧️🔒🏇
Afta da seven deaths at Churchill Downs before da Kentucky Derby, da officials foa da Preakness Stakes stay taking one cautious approach to da pre-race examinations. First Mission, da 5-2 second choice in da morning line, wen get scratched from da race early Friday morning cuz of one unspecified left hind-ankle injury. 🌧️🏥🔍🐴
Da extra scrutiny stay going to every horse dat stay competing at Pimlico dis weekend. Officials stay requiring two veterinary authorizations befoa one horse can run — one from da trainer’s private vet, da odda from da regulatory vet in da state wea da horse wen stay befoa coming to Baltimore. 🏥🔍🐴
Randy Gootzeit stay choke up and tears stay threaten foa come, but she like tell you ’bout how one big gray colt named Snowball wen bring back one couple of horse lovers to da track, and how dey wen get dea hearts broken. 🌧️💔🐴
Snowball, known on da track as Freezing Point, wen suffer one fatal breakdown from one broken bone in his left front ankle during one undercard race at Churchill Downs on May 6, becoming da seventh horse to die in one agonizing eight days leading up to da Kentucky Derby. Da deaths, wea we no know da cause yet, stay cast one dark cloud ova dis year’s Triple Crown and wen bring back questions ’bout da safety of da animals as da sport stay getting ready foa da Preakness Stakes in Baltimore dis Saturday. 🌧️💔🏇
But foa Gootzeit and her trainer Joe Lejzerowicz, da problems in horse racing stay jus’ one background foa dea private sorrow. 🌧️😔🏇
“We woulda do anything foa save him, but we couldn’t,” Gootzeit wen say. “We miss him so much.” 💔😔🐴
Wild on Ice 3-year-old gelding He wen injure his left hind leg during training and wen get euthanized
Da jockey foa dis tough Texas-bred horse, Ken Tohill, wen win moa den 4,100 races, but da gelding’s win in da Sunland Derby in March stay his first win in one graded stakes race. At 60 years old, Tohill stay going be da oldest rider in Derby history. “One gift,” dat’s how Tohill wen describe Wild on Ice one morning last month. He wen continue, “He stay get good bloodlines and his talent stay starting foa show.” 🌧️🏇💪🤠
Code of Kings 3-year-old gelding He wen flip in his paddock and wen break his neck
Dis son of Empire Maker stay get enough potential foa debut in Saratoga, but he neva live up to dat potential and neva finish higha den fifth place in six starts. Code of Kings stay getting saddled when he wen get mesmerized by da party lights at one D.J. booth, according to his trainer, and wen flip one time, two times, and, finally, one fatal third time. 🌧️💔🐴
Wea time stay da Preakness Stakes?
Post time foa da 148th Preakness Stakes stay 7:01 p.m. Eastern. ⏰🌧️🐴
Da telecast by NBC Sports stay already going on CNBC, and stay going shift to NBC at 4:30 p.m. You can also watch da coverage on Peacock ($4.99 per month). Or, you can follow along with The New York Times right here. 📺🌧️🐴
Da track, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, stay one mile and three-sixteenths long; da record, set by Farma Way in 1991, stay 1 minute 52 ⅖ seconds. 🌧️🏇🕒
