Golden Birthday, a 4-year-old gelding, was euthanized after breaking down in the final race Wednesday at Santa Anita.
, had its first racing death of the new meet when a horse broke down in the last race on Wednesday. Golden Birthday took a bad step early in the stretch and jockey Victor Espinoza came off the horse while he was trying to pull up the 4-year-old gelding.
Golden Birthday was euthanized upon the recommendation of veterinarians. He fractured the lower part of a hind leg, possibly because of contact with another horse while racing. He was running in a 1 1/8-mile turf race for allowance horses for a purse of $57,000.It’s the second fatality of this winter-spring meet. Truest Reward sustained a broken left front leg on Dec. 26 while doing low impact work on the training track. The track had more than 5,000 timed workouts since Nov.
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