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I would post this in the Memorial section, but due to the circumstances I feel it deserves a larger audience. It’s a big blow to the jumps world, Arcadius was a possible Eclipse champion. Saturday was a day that no American jumps fan will forget for a long time.
Crazy-a horse wins the biggest race of the spring season, then collapses after being unsaddled.
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A Kentucky-bred son of Giant’s Causeway, Arcadius had quite expensive pedigree. His dam Unify is a 1/2 sister to Bernstein, Caress, Country Cat, and Della Francesca, graded stakes winners all. His 1/2 brother All Together (by Danzig) was 2010 NSA Champion Novice Hurdler and in fact finished 5th in the G2 Marcellus Frost earlier on Saturday’s card. Arcadius sold for $500,000 as a yearling to Coolmore. He was briefly trained by Aiden O’Brien in Ireland, and imported as a 4yo by Jonathan Sheppard. He gave Irishman Brian Crowley his first American win (in 2009) and Jonathan Sheppard his 1,000th win (in 2010). He was lightly raced but looked like he was really blossoming as an 8yo this year.
Sad news, Miss Woodford, but it does happen. I remember some years ago, one of the UK eventers’ horse collapsed during the prize giving ceremony after winning at Badminton’s 3-day event. It’s a total shock for everyone.
RIP Arcadius.
Sad news, Miss Woodford, but it does happen. I remember some years ago, one of the UK eventers’ horse collapsed during the prize giving ceremony after winning at Badminton’s 3-day event. It’s a total shock for everyone.
RIP Arcadius.
What’s unfortunate about this is that it’s reaching mainstream news outlets, and people are trying to connect the dots between the drugs and cruelty that they read about in the New York Times and this spontaneous aneurysm. On the Fox Sports website there’s 11 pages of commenters decrying the entire sport. Nevermind that Jonathan Sheppard has never had a single drug positive in his 44 years of training, all raceday medications other than Lasix are banned under NSA rules, and Arcadius pulled up just fine after the race and showed no signs of distress during it.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Unfortunately, as you say, people are trying to make connections where there aren’t any regarding drug use in the sport. Such a shame when what they should be concentrating on is the horse’s achievements and his sad demise.
Wow, Joe Clancy wrote a fantastic piece for the
New York Times
. It’s on page B13 of today’s paper. The article is teased on the front page.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/sport … d=pl-shareThey
really
could have done without that photo, though.
Background on the article from Joe http://www.st-publishing.com/cms2/index … nt-in-time
This is the most media coverage American steeplechasing has gotten in a long time.
Agree about the photo, Miss Woodward, it’s like the Best Mate photo that appeared in so many papers when he died. Let Joe Public who never show any interest in horses or racing at any other time see a photo of the horse at his glorious best, running and jumping. But it is a good article. I do wish, however, that more people could understnad that this can happen to any horse at any time anywhere. Every death of a horse is a tragedy whichever way it happens. I sometimes think that their strength and beauty almost makes it impossible to believe that they are mortal creatures like the rest of us. What a sad day for everyone concerned.
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