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ARCADIA (CNS) - A 3-year-old colt died after suffering a training injury at Santa Anita Park, the track's second fatality of the year, officials said.
"Brummell experienced a suspected shoulder fracture during training Thursday morning at Santa Anita Park," Santa Anita said in a statement Thursday evening. "He was immediately attended to by an expert team of on-site veterinarians and transported via equine ambulance for advanced diagnostic imagining. Sadly, it was determined that it was an unrecoverable injury.
"His rider was immediately attended to by on-site paramedics and was transported to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena for further evaluation.
" ... Santa Anita Park is one of the largest racing and training facilities in the country, averaging more than 6,250 runners and 375,000 training sessions per year. The safety rate for the track is the highest in the nation (for those with comparable volume) at approximately 99.97%," the statement continued.
Brummell had just one race in his career, a seventh-place finish at Del Mar in July.
Last Saturday, the 5-year-old thoroughbred Don't Fight the Fed fell at the three-eighths pole in the eighth race and was euthanized on the track.
The Arcadia track had 14 horses die from racing or training injuries in 2024.
