{"id":104285,"date":"2025-08-31T03:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104285\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:37:15","slug":"second-horse-dies-this-year-from-racing-injury-at-del-mar-racetrack-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104285\/","title":{"rendered":"Second horse dies this year from racing injury at Del Mar Racetrack \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 3-year-old gelding died Saturday after suffering an injury during a race at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sad to confirm that in today&#8217;s second race General Jackson suffered a catastrophic injury to his right front fetlock and was humanely euthanized,&#8221; track officials posted on X. &#8220;Our deepest sympathies to everyone who cared for him.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are sad to confirm that in today\u2019s second race General Jackson suffered a catastrophic injury to his right front fetlock and was humanely euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>Our deepest sympathies to everyone who cared for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Del Mar Racetrack (@DelMarRacing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelMarRacing\/status\/1961907677396881880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Jackson had 11 races and one first-place finish in his career, according to the industry website Equibase.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second horse to die from a racing injury at Del Mar this year. The 3-year-old thoroughbred Uncrowned King was euthanized after suffering an injury on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Five racehorses died from racing or training injuries at Del Mar in 2024, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrb.ca.gov\/racing_fatalities_Cat1.aspx\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.chrb.ca.gov\/racing_fatalities_Cat1.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Horse Racing Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 3-year-old gelding died Saturday after suffering an injury during a race at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. &#8220;We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[6552,8029,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-104285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-del-mar","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}