Hollywood's First Cushion Track Meet

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

You sure about that? Seems almost impossible to have a meet where no horses are euthanized on the main track as a result of the races being run.Churchill had one death,and another serious injury in the same race.Totally unrealated to each other,and (of course) neither incident had anything to do with their track there.Things just happen,but you're saying things didn't "just happen" during the main track races on the cushion??

This is according to the article.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

You sure about that? Seems almost impossible to have a meet where no horses are euthanized on the main track as a result of the races being run.Churchill had one death,and another serious injury in the same race.Totally unrealated to each other,and (of course) neither incident had anything to do with their track there.Things just happen,but you're saying things didn't "just happen" during the main track races on the cushion??

That is correct. There were no fatal breakdowns in the afternoon but there were 3 of them in the morning.

I wonder if the ones in the morning could have been avoided. At least two of the three happened when they were messing with the track. If you remember, the Pletcher horse broke down when the track was all uneven do to them changing the harrows on the tractors. The Frankel horse broke down when they were saturating the track with water.

[sumitas]

Two very good observations Rupert. In the care of the horse the cushion track is no substitute proper decision making.