Sad News

Grade 3 winner Hesanoldsalt was euthanized on Wednesday after fracturing his shoulder and forearm at Palm Meadows Training Center, Daily Racing Form reported. Trainer Nick Zito told the Form that Hesanoldsalt was hurt in a collision with a tree. After rearing and breaking away from a groom, the Broad Brush horse headed toward trainer Michael Matz’s barn. Hesanoldsalt ran into the tree while trying to duck away from someone trying to catch him.
A homebred of Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, Hesanoldsalt is full brother to Grade 1 winner and sire Mongoose out of the winning Cox’s Ridge mare Salty Gal. Hesanoldsalt earned four wins in 22 starts, including a victory in the 2006 Fred W. Hooper Handicap (G3), and earned $514,938.

Hesanoldsalt

The full brother to Mongoose, Hesanoldsalt, will go up against the favorite, Corinthian in tomorrows Suburban Handicap (G1) at Belmont Park. He has had 5 starts this year with 5 impressive second place finishes including second to Horse of the Year, Invasor, in the Donn Handicap, and second, by a neck, to Corinthian in the Gulfstream Park Handicap. Hopefully he will be the bride instead of the bridesmaid in this one! He is trained by Nick Zito and owned by Live Oak Plantation. (in picture he is outside horse, red cap)

Corinthian the horse to beat in Suburban Handicap at Belmont - Thoroughbred Times