SECRETS UNTOLD

Written by AAP
Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:30

Tears flowed freely at Doomben on Saturday when Secrets Untold fatally snapped his shoulder in full view of the crowd and forced the stoppage of a race for the first time in memory.

Secrets Untold, a nine-year-old gelding having his 77th start, stumbled and dislodged jockey Scott Seamer as the big field thundered out of the straight on the first lap of the 2020m race.

Seamer and Secrets Untold lay prone on the track as barrier attendants assembled a man-made barricade around the pair while stewards signalled to other jockeys to restrain their mounts as the field approached the home straight on the second lap.

Seamer was momentarily knocked unconscious and had no recollection of the horrific incident when he returned to the enclosure, and Secrets Untold was put down.

Chief steward Wade Birch said the incident was the first of its kind in his memory.

"We've never had to stop a race to avoid a fallen horse and/or jockey in my time," Birch said.

"There was a similar incident in the Toowoomba Cup about 10 years ago when a horse reared at the start and knocked itself out but the field went around it.

"We called the race off today as the field approached the 1100 metres.

"In the interest and safety of the jockey we had no other option and it was the best thing to do."

Stewards held an immediate inquiry and found nobody at fault.

Gulfstream:

Stevie Jones-2 year old colt by Smarty Jones

cardmania, 1993 sprint champ- had an inoperable tumor.

Dear Ms. Debodeb will you kindly start the thread for this year?

Thanks.

Still from 2011...

See You Then, an amaing horse who won three consecutive Champion Hurdles. He lived till 31.

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...969106/latest/

Will do and will move Cardmania there. (thanks Deb for posting Cardmania).

Bellacourt-2


NY Stakes Winner Bellacourt Euthanized
By Esther Marr
Updated: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:43 PM
Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:37 PM
BellacourtNew York-based stakes winner Bellacourt, who finished third to eventual champion 2-year-old filly My Miss Aurelia in last year’s Adirondack Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga, was euthanized in mid December due to complications from laminitis.

According to trainer James Lawrence, Bellacourt had been working toward a start in the Nov. 19 Delta Downs Princess Stakes (gr. III) when she fractured her left front sesamoid at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.

“We were breezing five eighths of a mile and in the last eighth when she switched leads, she just took a bad step and broke her sesamoid,” said Lawrence of the filly, who is owned by North Carolina-based attorneys George and Stephanie Autry.

Bellacourt underwent a series of surgeries under the care of veterinarian Dean Richardson at New Bolton Center in West Chester, Pa., to repair the original injury, as well as other subsequent ailments, such as a tissue infection, colic, and a collapsed pastern.

Following the fourth surgery, Bellacourt had shown signs of improvement, but then developed a serious case of laminitis.

“She was doing really well, and then all of a sudden she took a turn for the worst, and we elected not to put her through any more pain,” said Lawrence. “It’s a real shame because she was such a talented filly. I think she was going to be very tough in New York company this year and also in open graded stakes.”

Added George Autry, who started in the industry about seven years ago: “She took us to a place we haven’t been before, so she will always be special for that reason.”

Bellacourt, a daughter of Lion Heart—Gold Court, by Strike the Gold, won two of her five career starts, including the Oct. 22 restricted Joseph A. Gimma Stakes at Belmont Park. Bred in New York by Cheryl Prudhomme and Dr. Michael Gallivan, she had earnings of $101,550.




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Put this in the 2011 thread since the article said she was euthanized in December.