From Racing Post...

Infirmities of old age claim matriarch Unsuspected at 36

Nancy Sexton


UNSUSPECTED, the dam of Yorkshire Oaks winners Sally Brown and Untold, was put down last week at Robert Cowell's Bottisham Heath Stud in Newmarket due to the infirmities of old age. The daughter of Above Suspicion, who reached the astonishing age of 36, had lived in retirement for the last 16 years.

“We had her virtually all her life,” said Cowell, who also has the mare's second daughter, 28-year-old Shoot Clear, in retirement at the stud. “We bought Unsuspected as a foal, sold her as a yearling, and bought her back as a two-year-old. She was a decent racemare and there's plenty going on through her daughters – her blood is all over the world.”

Unsuspected made her name as a tough handicapper for trainer Ryan Jarvis, winning eight of 26 starts, from 1m to 1m6f, over three seasons.

Each of her seven foals to race won, but it was through a trio of fillies trained by Sir Michael Stoute during the mid-1980s that she made her name.

The first was Shoot Clear, a daughter of Bay Express, who won the Group 3 Waterford Candelabra Stakes en route to becoming the 1983 champion two-year-old filly. She later finished fourth to Pebbles in the 1,000 Guineas.
Those fine achievements were eclipsed by those of her younger siblings, Sally Brown and Untold, both of whom landed back-to-back runnings of the Yorkshire Oaks in 1985 and 1986. Untold was the more forward of the two, having captured the Group 3 Hoover Fillies' Mile. The daughter of Final Straw was also placed in the Oaks, Irish Oaks and
St Leger.

Sally Brown, unraced at two, won the Ribblesdale Stakes on her third start. The daughter of Posse was also fourth in the Irish Oaks.

Unsuspected's other foals included Listed winner Mohican Girl and useful hurdler Mushtaag. Although she was unable to produce anything similar to her calibre, Shoot Clear became the ancestress of Group 3 winner Mulaqat and stakes-placed pair Dance Clear and Dancing Colors.

Sally Brown bred the Group 3-placed Anne Bonny, while Mohican Girl is granddam of Group 3 winner Satchem.

Unsuspected's first foal, the triple winner Warm Wind, bred Warm Spell, winner of the Lanzarote Hurdle, and Cold Blow, dam of Listed winner Katy Nowaitee.

Wellnessfast, today at HP.....

RIP.

Eveready and Charted.....

Only 4 of 13 finished the race. Sad.

RIP.

http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing...d-in-Australia

Bejayjay, winner of 12 races.

Only 2 of 7 finished this race.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominio...1795a4900.html

I'm surprised the animal rights groups aren't all over this or do you not have PETA types over there?

We don't really have groups like that, but there has still been quite a strong reaction to it. Jumps racing is in a bit of trouble I think.

And I'm not that sad about it, I find it absolutely terrifying to watch.

Unrequited...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23647

She's Jazzy, at Delaware Park.

AP News at Penn National...

Dylan, at Canterbury.

Vindication...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23856

Spanish Mission...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/96139.html

Winter's Gone...

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/46067.htm

Cashew King... 25 years old.


"He was a grand horse. He gave me one of the biggest wins of my career in the County Hurdle, and although I point-to-pointed him a couple of times he spent the best part of his time out in the field here with the youngsters."

~ Trevor Wall (jockey)

Jump in peace.

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Dakota Padre..... at Del Mar...


http://www.drf.com/news/article/96504.html

..... and Tsuimai.....

http://www.racingandsports.com.au/br...D=131634&id=FP

RIP all.

Nuts.

Yes..I get it already.



But I think Mr. Peanut should have delivered the eulogy.

Hey...jarifucl<face.



Why don't you bring your spazz act over here? Go ahead...vomit on the graves you dim wit.

Come on Johnny Swift....muck up this thread,too.

Poor guy.


Bak to Bill dies

By Graham Clark

A MULTIPLE national hunt race winner died in bizzare circumstances in Newmarket on Tuesday.
Bak to Bill, a winner of more than £75,000 in prizemoney, suffocated after trying to climb over a petition in his horsebox.

The 13-year-old gelding, who ran his last race at Wincanton in March 2007, was being transported back to his former trainer Sue Gardiner's Exeter stables after not settling at the British Horseracing School where he had been retired.

Owner Des Gardiner said: "He was a home breed of ours that gave us a lot of fun during his racing career and he will be sadly missed."

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/ne...ies.4304537.jp

let it be known that i am deleting all pm's sent to me..unread



i am in no mood




the last one now flies with the angels

They don't bother with the rest of it...

http://www.lonestarpark.com/NewsEven...eil+injury.htm

... but Mr. Smee didn't make it.

http://www.equibase.com/static/chart...71908USA11.pdf

RIP

Really sad news...

Her name was Runforthemoneybaby, and she'll be missed.

She was a full sister to Spenditallbaby and the winner of the Cal Cup Juvy Fillies.

Condolences to Jeff Mullins and to her connections.

Good night, good girl.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008...8c00760288.txt


DEL MAR NOTES: Second horse in three days is euthanized
By JEFF NAHILL - Staff Writer | Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:09 PM PDT


DEL MAR ---- The Polytrack claimed its second horse in three days during training hours when Runforthemoneybaby, a 3-year-old filly, suffered a broken right sesamoid Sunday morning and had to euthanized.

Dakota Padre, a 4-year-old gelding, suffered a similar injury on Friday morning, but he was pulling up after a workout. Runforthemoneybaby was in the midst of a workout under jockey Tyler Baze when she suffered the fatal injury.

"She was just breezing," trainer Jeff Mullins said. "She went to switch leads and took a bad step. It was just a freak thing."

Last year, six horses were fatally injured on the Polytrack, four in workouts and two during the races.

Runforthemoneybaby, a daughter of Unusual Heat, was purchased privately last summer after she finished third in a $100,000 maiden claimer. She went on to finish third in the Grade I Oak Leaf Stakes during Oak Tree's meet at Santa Anita and won the Nov. 3 Cal Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Runforthemoneybaby had run exclusively on the grass this year with a second and a third. She earned $187,876 in eight starts.

"She was one of the best 3-year-old fillies in my barn," Mullins said.

The trainer has been one of Del Mar's staunchest supporters of the switch from dirt to Polytrack.

"I have no concerns about the track," Mullins said.

After trainers complained a year ago about the surface being too loose during the afternoon races, Del Mar added a layer of wax this spring and has been watering the track at least once during the races on the first four days of the meet.

Some Del Mar officials are starting to worry about the breakdowns so early in the meet, but track president Joe Harper said he has complete faith in the surface.

"I'm concerned about the breakdowns," Harper said, "but I'm not concerned about the track."

Harper said he didn't think the surface was too compact from the additional watering.

Harper said he did receive several phone calls before the meet from veterinarians at Hollywood Park warning him about sore horses coming down to Del Mar.

"They told me I had some sore horses coming my way," Harper said, "but I wouldn't put those two horses in that category."

Del Mar vets have scratched a number of horses this meet in the mornings and at the starting gate, a philosophy Harper firmly believes in.

"I've been in the barn area in the mornings and I can see there are horses that aren't sound," Harper said. "I can't keep them off the race track in the mornings, but I can in the afternoons.

"I've told our vets if there are any doubts, scratch the horse."

Sincity, a 3-year-old filly, was scratched at the gate in Sunday's first race when track stewards reported she "didn't warm up properly."

http://www.star-telegram.com/869/story/770536.html

Horse racing

Jockey hurt, horse dies:

Jockey Bryan McNeil was taken to a local hospital and Mr. Smee ended up in one of the infield lakes after Saturday’s final race at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie. When the field of older horses entered the turn of the turf sprint, Mr. Smee appeared to be in distress. As he ducked in, McNeil fell off the side, and Mr. Smee ducked through the inside rail and then into the lake, where he died. McNeil appeared to have a wrist injury.

— Gary West

Poor guy.



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Racing Post...

Death of popular sire Puissance

by Bloodstock Desk staff

PUISSANCE, a popular sprint sire for many years at Bearstone Stud, was put down last week. The 22-year-old was thought to have broken his shoulder.

Trained by Vincent O'Brien, the son of Thatching was a high-class sprinter, winning three races, including the Group 3 Greenlands Stakes.

The first stallion to retire to Terry Holdcroft's Bearstone Stud in 1991, he wasted no time by siring Group 3 Norfolk Stakes winner Mind Games from his first crop.

Mind Games went on to land two renewals of the Group 2 Temple Stakes before retiring in 1998 to stand alongside his sire at Bearstone, where he got off to a similarly fast start with Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes winner Romantic Myth, a member of his first crop. Mind Games was transferred to Yorton Farm for this season.

Puissance was also the sire of another Norfolk Stakes winner in Rosselli, as well as classy sprint handicappers such as Talbot Avenue and Anniversarypresent. His final small crop are yearlings.

The best foal to be produced out of the Balidar mare Girton, Puissance hailed from the family of another fast horse in Sizzling Melody.

I really dont get the "suffocated after trying to climb over a petition in his horsebox."
What was the petition for?
Did he sign it?
Why was the petition in his horsebox?
What is a horsebox?
Why was he climbing it? Was he trying to escape from his horsebox?
How do you suffocate in a horsebox?
Was it the petition that suffocated the horse?

DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS MYSTERIOUS EVENT??

Isn't a horsebox what they call a horsetrailer/van in England? I'm guessing the petition is the divider of the stalls?

Oh that Polytrack is really doing wonders to save horsies. :rolleyes:

Maybe we can make a petition to stop polytrack.

Nevermind, wouldn't want to suffocate any horsies.

I thought the same thing....it's all part of the PETA conspiracy....:zz:

I guess a partition is a petition in England, but I didn't sign it anyway.

it's a partition, not a petition. i noticed it originally..glad i'm not the only one who sees stuff like that and thinks 'what the hell?'

i'm betting whoever gave the story to the reporter said partition, but he/she heard petition.

I was really tired yesterday.

lol
i can relate to that.

Helen of Troy, 12 years old (laminitis)...

Star Canyon, 3 years old, at Canterbury on Sunday (race 13).

Rest in peace.

Ballindaggin...

http://www.oldfriendsequine.org/

http://www.drf.com/news/article/96646.html

Deserted Dane...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24117

AP News (Penn National, beginning of the month)...

http://www.drf.com/drfNCWeeklyHorseD...80704&raceNo=1

Valid Victress.....

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/46241.htm

... and Homewrecker...

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/46259.htm

Spanish Symbol...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/horseraci...492801757.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/horse-...492811164.html

These are a little late, but I've only just found out.

They need to be added here though.

Hong Kong runners...

General Speedee, Socrates and Tactic King.

Rest in peace.