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If These Don’t Rend Your Heart…

From HorseracingWrongs
February 2023

No Ice Cream was just three years old.... Decline to Rule was just two years old..... Heaven’s Music was just three years old.... Beautiful Lavender was just two years old.

Through a FOIA request to the California Horse Racing Board, I have obtained the following details on 4 of that state’s 64 kills last year (previous ones here).

No Ice Cream, Oct 6, Santa Anita T
“Horse died spontaneously following workout: extensive hemorrhages involving all components of both lungs.” Also: “multifocal chronic stomach ulcers.” No Ice Cream was just three years old.

Decline to Rule, Oct 20, Los Alamitos T
“Horse flipped over in gate – head trauma followed by significant epistaxis [bleeding from nostrils], dilated pupils, and labored breathing. [Multiple] catastrophic skull fractures. Severe, regionally extensive hemorrhage and tearing of the dura mater [membrane around brain].” Decline to Rule was just two years old.

Heaven’s Music, Oct 21, Santa Anita R
“Catastrophic complex fetlock breakdown: [multiple] open, comminuted, complete, displaced fractures; [multiple] complete ligament ruptures; completely torn flexor tendon.” Also: “pre-existing subchondral necrotic and sclerotic bone with focal severe erosion of the superficial cartilage in both PS bones; palmar osteochondral disease in both condyles of the MC3; gastric ulceration.” Heaven’s Music was just three years old.

Beautiful Lavender, Dec 6, Golden Gate S
“Euthanized after six days of fever and significant weight loss: severe, diffuse aortic endocarditis – the three leaflets of the aortic valve, with the right leaflet being the most severe, are diffusely thickened by the accumulation of a light yellow to gray, friable vegetation; multiple septic joints.” Beautiful Lavender was just two years old.

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