{"id":148060,"date":"2026-02-08T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148060\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:41:19","slug":"horse-killed-at-tampa-but-lets-celebrate-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148060\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Killed at Tampa &#8211; But Let&#8217;s Celebrate Anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2nd at Tampa Bay yesterday, says the chartwriter, Bench Boy \u201ctook a bad step at the wire and left the track in an ambulance.\u201d Turns out, that \u201cbad step\u201d was fatal. Dead, at three. In addition, Uncle Zeb \u201cfell past the wire when he ran into a faltering [Bench Boy].\u201d While the chart says the 4-year-old \u201cwalked off,\u201d that could simply be a function of an already-occupied ambulance. We will follow up.<\/p>\n<p>And how\u2019s this for morally bankrupt \u2013 with a dying (or already dead) horse behind them, the \u201cWinner\u2019s Circle,\u201d including with what looks like children, continues as planned\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"92450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horseracingwrongs.org\/?attachment_id=92450\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/horseracingwrongs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000002750.png?fit=2532%2C1170&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2532,1170\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1000002750\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/horseracingwrongs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000002750.png?fit=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/horseracingwrongs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000002750.png?fit=1024%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000002750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92450\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 2nd at Tampa Bay yesterday, says the chartwriter, Bench Boy \u201ctook a bad step at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-148060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}