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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
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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.