An 8-year-old gelding has died nearly a week after suffering an injury in a race at Los Alamitos, state horse racing officials reported.<\/p>\n
Exhalting was injured in the fifth race on March 7. The official race chart says he \u201cbroke thru gate, trailed, eased, (and was) equine ambulanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
He died Friday, according to the California Horse Racing Board, which lists the death as \u201cmusculoskeletal.\u201d No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n
Foaled in Florida, Exhalting had 28 career races and four first-place finishes. His last 12 races were at Los Alamitos.<\/p>\n
He is the third horse to die from a racing or training injury at the Cypress track this year. Los Alamitos had 19 racing and training deaths in 2025, according to CHRB data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 8-year-old gelding has died nearly a week after suffering an injury in a race at Los Alamitos,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49869,100645,1491,349,131,133,132,100646,24371],"class_list":["post-219801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-alamitos","tag-eight-year-old","tag-fatal","tag-injury","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-racehorse","tag-suffers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}