OMG! Delaware Park paddock injury - Races canceled

[jnunan4759]

Thanks for the info Steve. Sounds like "A Perfect Storm" situation. Ideally we want the EMT's and ambulances to be bored. The initial info sounded strange in that every track has two of everything.

[jnunan4759]

I also don't think money was a consideration in running that race. When you have horses in the paddock and saddled, they are pumped and ready to go. To unsaddle them and bring them back to the barn can be dangerous. I can see the wisdom in letting them run. They cancelled the other races where the horses hadn't been bought to the paddock yet.

DEL has always had DEL State Police on track since I was a kid. At least two. I was talking to one on DEL Hdcp day outside the paddock.

[Danzig]

this has to be the first time they'd had such an incident. hopefully they learn from it, and make ambulance dispatch to any site on the track to handle a serious injury like this-or that someone would have immediately made arrangements to get one there.

[jnunan4759]

Agreed Danzig. This was a weird brew of incidents at the same time. Decisions had to be made and maybe they were wrong, but were made. Because of the apron incident they were down an ambulance. They have to run an ambulance behind the race. Unanswered questions here. There is more to this. DEL is a track full of horsemen and horse people.