Angels In Memorium, 2012

[Rileyoriley]

Raw Moon-3 year old filly suffered a fatal cardiovascular collapse after the 9th race at Aqueduct 1/15.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

1-14-12

For Oby - Tampa Race 10

Still wating for news on Juan Delgado who was taken off the track on a backboard and transported to a local hospital.

I can't find a thing on the jockey. Hope he's alright.

A lot of talk going around about this...

http://twitter.com/derbycontenders

@DerbyContendersKY Derby Contenders

Adirondack King taking all the action in TAM's Pasco S. For Oby failed vet exam for sale.

[OldDog]

Loto Canada

Just as the December 2011 Washington Thoroughbred Stallion Register was going to press, with the tribute to Loto Canada which appeared in the "Second Chances' column, it was learned that two-time Washington champion had passed away on New Year's Day due to the infirmities of old age. He had just officially turned 35.

Foaled on March 5, 1977, at his breeder Jerre Paxton's Kwik Lok Corporation - later renamed Northwest Farms - in Yakima, the son of Saltville-Petite Patootie, by Crafty Admiral, was purchased privately for a reported $5,000 by Lee and Patti Brauer, who had decided to spend some of their recent Canadian lotto winnings on a racehorse. Turned over to trainer Len Kasmerski, the medium-sized grandson of Tom Fool earned the first of four consecutive stakes races as a juvenile by taking the Blue Boy Stakes at Exhibition Park (now Hastings Racecourse). He also added victories in the Gottstein Futurity and Stripling and Tukwila stakes to his two-year-old tally and also finished third in the Grade 3 Sunny Slope Stakes at Santa Anita and the Washington Stallion Stakes en route to being named Washington champion two-year-old.

Sent to Oaklawn Park in the early spring of his sophomore year, Loto Canada defeated future Belmont Stakes (G1) winner and champion Temperence Hill in an allowance test at the Arkansas track.. He later won the William E. Boeing Stakes at Longacres by 10 lengths, equaling the track record and finished second to Pappy in the Longacres Derby. The speedy runner also ran third in both the Grade 2 Silver Screen and Grade 3 El Dorado handicaps at Hollywood Park that season and earned his second state title.

At four, Loto Canada won both the Seattle and Washington Championship handicaps and finished third in the Longacres Mile (G3) and Renton Handicap.

At five, he placed in two additional Longacres stakes. He was retired due to a hoof injury, but not before recording a record of 11-5-10 from 33 starts during his five-year career and earning $311,993 (SSI 10.82).

After spending most of his retirement years in the Yakima area, which was home to the Brauers, Loto Canada moved to the farm of John and Tanja Parker and family to be loved and spoiled during his final years.

In a note from John Parker to tell us of the champion's death, he reported that Loto Canada's right front leg just could no longer support his weight and the time had come to say goodbye.

"We thanked him for the courage and warmness he brought to my family and for showing us what a little horse with a gigantic heart can do. His head was on my wife's lap and she was stroking him as he took his last breath. The little horse that could was gone at the ripe old age of 35. We buried him that day in a place my wife picked out on our property with a salute and care package of a Snickers bar, mints, an apple, and a course, a cola. It's now the racetrack in the sky for a horse that gave it all."

-- Washington TBOA


"When Patti and Lee Brauer won a $1-million lottery two years ago, they went out and splurged on a pickup, a tractor and a $5,000 horse. Then they really got lucky."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...56/1/index.htm

[OldDog]

I Like the Odds

http://www.drf.com/news/los-alamitos...dds-euthanized

[Danzig]

grey flannel, injured just after the start of monday's 4th at oaklawn. 4 yo gelding by eddington was later euthanized.

[OldDog]

More on Buck Jakes courtesy of Barbara Livingston

http://www.drf.com/blogs/beloved-buck-jakes-0

[OldDog]

Retired from racing 12YO Scooby Who and 5YO Cassidy Blue, both grandsired by Storm Cat, in a barn fire that also claimed the lives of seven other unnamed horses

http://chronofhorse.com/article/barn...-pennsylvania#

[Rileyoriley]

Beautiful Sound (Ireland)-9 years old











ELLIOTT REVEALS TRAGIC LOSS OF SOUND

Beautiful Sound, a possible contender for the John Smith's Grand National, has been put down due to a cancerous growth.

The 10-year-old had just six starts under Rules, winning at Punchestown and Fairyhouse before finishing third in the Byrne Group Plate at the Cheltenham Festival last term.

Beautiful Sound also finished a narrow second at the Punchestown Festival but had yet to make his reappearance this term.

Trainer Gordon Elliott revealed that connections had little choice but to have the gelding humanely destroyed due to his illness.

Elliott tweeted: "Heartbreaking decision made today to put down one of our top staying chasers, Beautiful Sound, due to a persistent cancerous growth on his leg that was making life uncomfortable for him.

"Very hard decision but along with his owners we had to do what was best for him.

"Undoubtedly a horse who never got to fulfil his potential. It never seems to happen to the bad ones."

[Rileyoriley]

Montegonian (Maria's Mon)-4, fell last Friday at Kempton

[Rileyoriley]

Rapport-5-Broke down in the Pan Zareta stakes yesterday at the FG. Condylar fracture.

[my miss storm cat]

Bankable, from colic on the 13th.

A shame.

http://blog.summerhill.co.za/blog/20...e-banking.html

[Bigsmc]

1-26-12

Second Appeal - Tampa Race 8

[OldDog]

Evansville Slew, 20YO OK-based stallion by Slew City Slew, was euthanized due to complications from colic.

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/bre...uthanized.aspx



Teardrops On Fire, a 3YO filly by Thunder Gulch, was euthanized after breaking down in the 1st race at Santa Anita yesterday. It was the 4th start of her career. Prior to it she was 3-1-2-0.




Kingsize Shoe Nami fell in the 1st at Delta Downs yesterday and was euthanized on the track. It was the fifth career start for the 4YO gelded son of Wildcat Shoes.

[Rileyoriley]

REPRICED-24


Darby Dan Stallion Repriced Dies
By Blood-Horse Staff
Updated: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:34 PM
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:34 PM

Repriced, one of the last remaining sons of Roberto, died Jan. 27, at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington from an apparent heart attack. He was 24.

“It’s the real end of an era with the passing of Repriced,” said Darby Dan owner John Phillips. “He represented a connection to the golden era of American stallions. It’s well known that my grandfather, John W. Galbreath, named Roberto (a major winner and sire) for the great Pittsburgh Pirates’ right fielder, Roberto Clemente. Both Robertos were exceptional in their fields, and Repriced was a wonderful link to those great years. Though Repriced was largely retired, we are all sad not to see him enjoying his time in his paddock.”

Bred and owned by Leonard Lavin’s Glen Hill Stable, Repriced won a division of the 1991 Oceanside Stakes on grass and placed in four stakes including the El Rincon Handicap (gr. IIT) the following year. He retired with a record of 5-6-2 from 21 (Clemente’s uniform number) starts and earned $288,412.

A Florida-bred, Repriced was from one of Glen Hill’s best female families. Out of the Quack mare Feature Price, Repriced was a full brother to English group winner Undercut and a half brother to graded winners Gray Cashmere and Top Rung.

Repriced, who stood at Mare Haven Farm near Lexington before standing at Darby Dan starting in 2001, has sired 35 stakes horses and the earners of more than $11.9 million. His 20 stakes winners include graded winners Capital Request, Closeout, No Inflation, Rich in Spirit, and Spruce Run.







Copyright © 2012 Blood-Horse Publications. All rights reserved internationally.

[my miss storm cat]

Mr.. Chow, 7, at Cheltenham after finishing 9th in his race (his 10th start). He had been trained by David Pipe.

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Bellacourt.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...urt-euthanized

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

1-26-12

Second Appeal - Tampa Race 8

http://www.drf.com/news/tampa-bay-do...-ride-saturday

[my miss storm cat]

Fortydeuce, today at Aqueduct...

http://www.drf.com/news/aqueduct-kin...may-try-gotham

[my miss storm cat]

When she shocked everyone and won it wasn't because she wasn't good... this was her 5th win in a row... but rather because of the field which was in a word amazing.

Here are the final 400 meters of Sleepless Night winning the Sprinters Stakes.

Sorry for the terrible sound...

http://japanracing.jp/_news2008/081005.html

(Full replay here... scroll down).

http://japanracing.jp/en/information...kes/index.html

A shame.

[my miss storm cat]

Abuela, at Tampa today (in the Endeavour).

http://www1.drf.com/drfPDFChartRaces...20120204&RN=10

[my miss storm cat]

Sheeds Paisley, Friday at Aqueduct.

Skorton in race 4 at Aqueduct today.

http://twitter.com/DRFGrening