Posted on 08/22/2021 10:41:33 PM PDT by blueplum
There's the Kentucky Derby, and then there's the mad Kentucky highway dash that a 2-year-old filly named Bold and Bossy made this weekend. She threw her jockey during a race Saturday in Kentucky, and then escaped the race park for a 30-minute gallop along a highway and an interstate before eventually getting corralled into a barn overnight.
Then, that barn caught fire...
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Who wants to that horse had a premonition and wanted to get away from that race track as fast as she could?
here’s a wapo article that shows the burns Bold and Bossy sustained to her back. She also has thrown shoes and a foot lesion from one thrown shoe:
Back in the late 1980’s I was at Hollywood Park and saw a horse go mad like this. He tossed the rider, ran up and down the track, then jumped the rails and started charging at people in the grandstand. Took about 20 minutes before he calmed down and the vets sedated him. Don’t know that he ever raced again. Made me wonder if they didn’t give the horse a little too much of something for “extra pep”.
I had a horse bolt out of a driveway right in front of me on US Route 6 in Eastham on Cape Cod, at time when traffic was fairly heavy. This was BC, before cell phones. I stopped at the first place likely to have a public phone to call police. The place happened to be run by superannuated hippies (It was the Cape. Think of Ben and Jerry’s Gas and Lube.) but they were very decent and shared my concern about a horse on a busy highway. When I called the non-emergency number, the officious individual who took the call, first insisted on getting my name and address. After I finally explained the situation, he said, “What do you want me to do about it?” Through gritted teeth, I explained that is was a dangerous situation, and though perhaps the police might be interested.
Ellis Park is geographically interesting, as it is in a flood plain on the north side of the Ohio River; the area around the track is in Kentucky because the Ohio River shifted course many years ago. The Indiana-Kentucky state line is marked by a road just north of the track property.
The track is probably closer to downtown Evansville than it is to downtown Henderson.
I had a friend who was a mounted police officer. He was working a football game on a very cold, sleety day. At some point his horse had had enough and decided to return to the stables which were a mile or so away. The horse also decided he wanted to be in the stable RIGHT NOW. My buddy had no control whatsoever. The horse started to make a turn at full gallop and his feet slid out from underneath him. The full weight of the horse fell on my friend. It broke my friend’s gun, and his leg. It took him months to recover.
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