Runner collapses in race then jumps in lake to cool off!

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Runner collapses in race then jumps in lake to cool off!

Postby wilf » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:15 pm

I kid you not.......a turf maiden runner in Tampa's 7th race today ,ironically named Shipping News jumped into the infield lake after heatstroking and probably saved himself. Read the chartcaller's comments ,they are in great detail.
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Postby Shammy Davis » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:41 pm

http://www.drf.com/news/overheated-hors ... field-lake
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Postby bdw0617 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:47 pm

them dang point givens are a wacky bunch I tell ya
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Postby Gallop58 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:51 pm

I think that DRF author is the one with heat stroke. He just called a mile and 3/8 turf race a marathon... :shock:

(I know, I know everyone calls them marathons now.... Just makes me cringe though)
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Postby Bast » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:16 pm

Didn't Point Given slip out of his bridle once at Churchill Downs and get loose for a time? 8)
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Postby bdw0617 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:38 pm

I remember watching HRTV and someone had a story, I don't know if it was millie or an assistant of bob's but I do remember that in his 3YO year at santa anita point given got lose after a workout or something like that and was running around.
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Postby Jorge » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:39 pm

Gallop58 wrote:I think that DRF author is the one with heat stroke. He just called a mile and 3/8 turf race a marathon... :shock:

(I know, I know everyone calls them marathons now.... Just makes me cringe though)


Signs of the times.

01. Sires get retired earlier from stud duties.
02. Runners are achieving less and less starts.
03. Races are run at shorter distances.
04. Some are suggesting shortening the Belmont Stakes.

and so on!

No wonder 1-3/8 mile is referred to as a "marathon" :shock:
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Postby Toccet02 » Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:41 am

Bast wrote:Didn't Point Given slip out of his bridle once at Churchill Downs and get loose for a time? 8)


I saw Bob Baffert give an ESPN on-camera account of how Point Given once had a slight ailment so they cut back on works and consequently feed; then because he was hungry he broke out of the stall, found food and got into a storage area where he got some chemicals under his hooves, and then reared up and banged his head, cutting his eye and requiring stitches.

Something like that. But there the horse was; stitches over his eye, feet wrapped up and a little sick.
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Postby Sailor Kenshin » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:55 am

Got replay?

And is the horse sound now?
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Postby Nerd » Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:02 pm

I have #4 from that race, Riverview Road, in my virtual stable and I was looking over the race summary to see why he had finished 7th, and I happened to glance at the next line down's comments:

collapsd, jumpd in lake

:shock: :?: :!:

The footnotes read:
SHIPPING NEWS was rank early, brushed the rail after six furlongs then was pulled up and collapsed from apparent heat prostration. He was revived and regained his footing at which point he wheeled to the inside and broke through the inner rail. He proceeded to break through the inner rail two other times, going on then back off the course then moved to and jumped into the infield lake. After having a haltered [sic] put on by members of the gate crew, he was removed from the lake and vanned off by horse ambulance.

Hope he recovers, seems to be a clever pony

Race (but not jumping-in-lake) replay here, race 7 on 2/17/11
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Postby Sylvie Hebert » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:03 pm

May be he was in shock,or his brain was boiling from the heat,some sort of crazy panic...
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Postby Travis » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:31 pm

How is the horse Shipping News doing?
Can you please put me in touch with his trainer/owners thru PM on this forum?
I am in Tampa.
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Postby bdw0617 » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:57 pm

I heard he could not race anymore
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Postby reenci » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:38 pm

i will take him !...givem to my trainer at finger lakes...he's a NYbred....i like driving the guy nuts...lol....and we dont have a infield lake here so he wont drown....lol :wink:
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Postby TJ » Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:58 am

Sailor Kenshin wrote:Got replay?

And is the horse sound now?


Hi Sailor,
The horse is doing fine. TJ
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