Azhar (3yr old filly by Alber the Great) R.I.P.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by Revidere

A really bad thing happened to some really good people Sunday night. My firiend's beautiful 3yo filly, Azhar broke down in the stretch in the 8th race at Presque Isle Sunday night and had to be euthanized. She was trained by Gerry Bennett and was starting to really put it together. I just wanted to give Rich and Jason at Twin C Stables best wishes. They are not major owners and were hoping with her breeding she would have a successful broodmare career.

Good thoughts to you and the owners.

I sure hate to hear it when such sad and bad things happen to these horses, but I do believe we should all take note when it happens.

I'm not being a "bleeding heart" at all, but I'm pretty much all for anything that would make this sport and love any safer for our athletes and performers.

I've followed this sport for a long long time with mostly great enjoyment and sometimes unexpected sorrow.

I'm not stopping.

Cashing tickets totally aside, I just want as high of a percentage of great enjoyment as we can all get.