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Funfair euthanized after breaking leg
10/29/2005 4:46:37 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - Funfair was euthanized Saturday after fracturing a hind leg in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park.
The horse from Britain, ridden by Edgar Prado, pulled up along the backstretch shortly after the race began. Prado dismounted, and the injured six-year-old gelding continued running around the track as the race continued.
Prado was uninjured, and returned to finish second aboard Society Selection in the Distaff. Funfair was finally stopped by track personnel, but the injury proved untreatable and the horse was euthanized on the track.
"He sustained an open fracture of the right behind cannon bone," said Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith, the Belmont Park veterinarian. He described it as "a catastrophic injury."
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