100 deg at Ellis Park now. "Feels like" 113
 

That's what weather.com reports.

--Dunbar

Is that good or bad? Seems like Skippy O doesn't mind the heat.

Ellis park is the hottest lace on earth

And the lady wears it well.

Horses don't need to be racing in this weather.

tell me about it. my horse died after the wire today. toups is sill in the hospital and i havent heard from his agent who promissed to call my trainer. just got home from riding in circles im so upset

thats awful...I'm so sorry.

thanks appreciate it

How awful, I am so very sorry for your loss.

man i'm so sorry to hear that.

I'm actually amazed that they ran today....I'm a couple of hours away and it was so hot you couldn't breathe today...even now it's like 90 degrees outside.

jocks name was johnson brain really not working toups was named sorry

Understandable. Sorry about your horse.

I'm so sorry.

Terrible, terrible tragedy, I'm so sorry. What was your horses' name?

I hope at least the jockey is okay. Keep us posted?

north east dream 4th at ellis, can't believe i have not heard anything on johnson

vet said it was heat stroke, just was way too hot over there many said it was 102

North East Dream .... I'll remember that name. So very sad.

Hope you hear about the jock soon.

It is 10:30pm here in Baton Rouge, and it is still 87degrees!! I walked outside the office at 9pm tonight and it took my breath. The air is so heavy its hard to breath in. People dont understand the difference in the humidity down here. A friend lives in Tacoma and was always kidding me because of my "Damn its hot, you just dont understand" comments, then she decided to bring her family to Disney in August last year!! She asked me "How the hell do you people live down there????".hehe I have a 24yr old gelding and I go out and hose him off twice a day while he is in the paddock just to keep him cool. All the fans do is microwave him, the air is so hot.

I'm very sorry for your loss and I hope the jock will be OK.
What a shame.
They really should have cancelled racing with the heat and humidity.
It's just oppressive down here.

i started for work at 3:50 am, it's already miserable at that time of day. wonder how long this heat wave will last. heat index 110 today. southeast arkansas, so i can relate to the humidity you're suffering with.

north east, very sorry to hear that you've lost your horse.

sorry for your loss, hope your jockey is ok.

tuesday and wednesday it was 102* here and they pulled our lineman off the street by 1pm.

Truly sorry for your loss also. Just curious though, the track vet told me today that the horse broke her leg and not a heat stroke???

Joe is doin ok, they did a CAT scan and he just got shook up really bad.