Joy Aten commented on Lavender Road, Quorum, and Majic Laughter Dead in NY. in response to Patrick J Battuello: 3-year-old Lavender Road, whom I wrote about this morning, was euthanized today after repeatedly falling at Saratoga yesterday afternoon. The official cause was a broken neck – from, of course, the repeated falls. The larger question, though, is why this apparently healthy 3-year-old – an equine child, really – collapsed in the first place. Heatstroke? […] How distressing and heartbreaking it is to hear this three-year-old-filly died. RIP, little Lavender Road…what an unnatural life you were forced to endure only to also suffer a horrific death. Such is horseracing. Abigail Adsit is claiming the filly repeatedly fell due to heat exhaustion/stress/stroke. She goes on to “inform” us that heat exhaustion can take place even when the outside temperature and humidity are not elevated, as they were not on that day. A blind man can see Adsit is attempting to avoid any responsibility in this filly’s death. Yet in claiming a heat-related insult, does Adsit not realize there must be certain factors present to induce an elevated internal temperature? And that those factors – outside of high heat and humidity – point the guilty finger at her? In addition, a horse suffering from heat exhaustion exhibits signs and symptoms over a period of time…it’s not “zero to sixty” in a matter of seconds! So is Adsit asking us to believe that in the time Lavender Road was walked from the barn to the paddock, saddled, and had the jockey assisted astride her, she suffered the insult? And without any significant expenditure of energy she became so compromised that she went down TEN TIMES? And why didn’t Adsit see the symptoms before she legged the jockey up and sent Lavender Road onto the track? Or did she? Not long ago, a post by Adsit came through on my newsfeed, announcing a Thoroughbred racing partnership of which she is the trainer. She was asking folks to join the partnership, all the while exclaiming the excitement of the “Sport of Kings”. In addition, there was a short paragraph on how this racing group “cares” about the horses and will set aside a “percentage” of their required fees for equine retirement purposes. I did comment, asking how they proposed to assist in the retirement of the horses they unloaded in claiming races, but I was quickly “escorted” off the page. Yet what I found especially insulting was this final sentence of hers, which was stated in regards to her “equine retirement plan”…it was “Horses giving back to horses”. And why is it, Ms. Adsit, the HORSES must give back?…haven’t they given enough already? Rose, I too, believe a necropsy should be performed. But I agree nothing would come of it anyway. Lavender Road’s horrific struggle for life and premature death will go the way of all racehorse deaths. Forgotten.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:02:29 +0000
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