Racing Fatalities At Turfway Park Up 50%

[joeydb]

Story here:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story...KrKTqMHhQ.cspx

Does not say what the totals are. Is it 3 fatalities versus 2 for last year, which would be a 50% increase? or 30 vs. 20?

Obviously statistics do very from year to year or meet to meet. I'm just curious to see if our sport's detractors will try to leverage an angle like "Even though this is a synthetic track, the sport is still dangerous..."

[Habersham000]

All the numbers are in this article....

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...Park-meet.aspx

Looks like a lot of front leg injuries...

[Habersham000]

I actually was flying from Cincinnati to Lexington on Saturday and flew over Turfway and there was a race going on and saw a horse pull up badly....checked the equibase chart when I got home and saw the horse was vanned off...hope its alright

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Habersham000

I actually was flying from Cincinnati to Lexington on Saturday and flew over Turfway and there was a race going on and saw a horse pull up badly....checked the equibase chart when I got home and saw the horse was vanned off...hope its alright

you actually FLEW from cinci to lex? it's like 80 miles....

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

you actually FLEW from cinci to lex? it's like 80 miles....

lol...I was just typing that

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by GBBob

lol...I was just typing that

I think it takes longer to get in and out of the airports than it would take to drive it