Classic Landing - Death at Meadowlands 07/14

[HarnessFan1981]

East Rutherford, NJ — On July 14 at The Meadowlands, the horse Classic Landing collapsed soon after the finish and died within moments. There was no catastrophic breakdown, his fatality was the result of an internal event.

A necropsy was performed, as is policy at The Meadowlands, and the results were recently filed with the New Jersey Racing Commission. A copy was requested by The Meadowlands so those results might be made available.

The summary of the necropsy reported by the New Jersey Animal Health Diagnostic Lab reads as follows:

“The cause of sudden collapse and death in this horse was hypovolemic shock and hypoxemia secondary to hemorrhage from rupture of the left pulmonary artery. The subcutaneous and skeletal muscle hemorrhages are consistent with trauma related to perimortem collapse.”

Classic Landing was a trotter, competing in the 2-year-old New Jersey Sires Stakes program for trainer Ron Burke and owners Burke Racing Stable, Knox Services, Larry Karr, and J&T Silva-Purnell & Libby. He had won his only previous start, a Kindergarten Series leg, in 1:54.4.

[shotgunner]

East Rutherford, NJ — On July 14 at The Meadowlands, the horse Classic Landing collapsed soon after the finish and died within moments. There was no catastrophic breakdown, his fatality was the result of an internal event.

A necropsy was performed, as is policy at The Meadowlands, and the results were recently filed with the New Jersey Racing Commission. A copy was requested by The Meadowlands so those results might be made available.

The summary of the necropsy reported by the New Jersey Animal Health Diagnostic Lab reads as follows:

“The cause of sudden collapse and death in this horse was hypovolemic shock and hypoxemia secondary to hemorrhage from rupture of the left pulmonary artery. The subcutaneous and skeletal muscle hemorrhages are consistent with trauma related to perimortem collapse.”

Classic Landing was a trotter, competing in the 2-year-old New Jersey Sires Stakes program for trainer Ron Burke and owners Burke Racing Stable, Knox Services, Larry Karr, and J&T Silva-Purnell & Libby. He had won his only previous start, a Kindergarten Series leg, in 1:54.4.

That crank Tim Finley was crowing all about how he could tell the horse was lame and that’s what happened to the horse. Fucking POS

[Generation XYZ]

Finley should problem become a stall mucker and take the course over again before assessing lameness issues.

[Mailbox Money]

The Hematologic and CBC reports on findings are probably being secured like classified documents!

[dinkadoo]

I found it interesting that this was released by the USTA. Lot of issues happen that seem to go silent. This one --- lets make it a press release.

[captain morgan]

That crank Tim Finley was crowing all about how he could tell the horse was lame and that’s what happened to the horse. Fucking POS

Don't forget Loveda saw it also 😂😀😂😀😂😀

[wiggles44]

Heart exploded
But dont investigate why
 

[Mailbox Money]

Sadly from here on out, this will be known as the "Colt that was born with a heart problem " if Burkes refer to him in conversation.   

[okdfool]

Blown heart from drugs, several have done it in the last 2 years and Hypoeximia is low oxygen,  low blood oxygen, all this affects the red blood cells, what ever their new super gas is is gonna keep killing their horses stupid greedy A- holes!

[Here they come]

Finley is correct. The horse did not look right on track in post parade.  I was waiting for judges to scratch. I’m sure it was connected to issues stated in report.

[SDST2009]

Finley is correct. The horse did not look right on track in post parade.  I was waiting for judges to scratch. I’m sure it was connected to issues stated in report.

100% correct. I saw the same you did. I fully understand it wasn't a catastrophic breakdown of the musculoskeletal nature, but I have eyes and that horse was not right in the post parade. I, like you, was waiting for the late scratch that never came.

[Here they come]

OKD FOOL, you sound like one. Horse obviously had genetic defect that caused his demise. There was an autopsy. If there was any drugs involved, that would have been detected.

[seen2much]

Tim Finley is a drama queen. I don't know him. His Facebook posts are ridiculous.

[White Rabbit]

OKD FOOL, you sound like one. Horse obviously had genetic defect that caused his demise. There was an autopsy. If there was any drugs involved, that would have been detected.

You can absolutely rule out genetic defect. The horse would have never made the races, that would have shown up when he was training down. The horse would have never been able to go a 40 mile. The necropsy did not shown and genetic abnormalities. But is for some odd unknown reason the blood is to thick then cardiac resistance gets so high that the arteries rupture from the increase in resistance. Again if this was a genetic abnormality this horse would have never went fast enough to qualify. That is and absolute medical fact.
The reason for posting the necropsy, just and observation not a fact is to present the case of , fill in the blank

[SDST2009]

OKD FOOL, you sound like one. Horse obviously had genetic defect that caused his demise. There was an autopsy. If there was any drugs involved, that would have been detected.

i am curious; are all drugs detectable/tested for? I am wondering if the necropsy would catch things beyond those that are typically tested for in day-to-day race testing.