Lila At the Beach died at Pleasanton yesterday, no details from the CHRB. She was six years old and had been put to the whip 33 times, most recently Oct 27 at that same track. She becomes the 94th kill in proud-of-our-safety-record California this year.

Then there were these notes from the 2nd at Evangeline Wednesday:

“Miss Headlines…was in full stride and had her hind end knocked out from underneath her…Candy On the Run…was hit by a careening rival…Tcb Eye B Famous was bothered twice by the same out of control rival…Lenas Long Night was off a bit slow, then ran side to side careening into whatever rival was near her, hitting two fairly hard, brushing another, finally jock threw the crop and rode with two reins choosing safety first.”

Got rid of the whip – “choosing safety first.” Then of course, this addendum, illustrating (again) what’s really important here: “There was a stewarts [sic] inquiry and after a stewarts [sic] review Lenas Long Night was disqulified [sic] from sixth place to seventh place for interference with other horses in the race.”

Lenas, by the way, is but three years old. Imagine how terrified this poor girl (a flight animal, I remind) must have been – “careening, hitting, brushing.” Horrible.

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