{"id":188116,"date":"2025-08-30T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:08:10","slug":"second-horse-dies-this-year-from-racing-injury-at-del-mar-racetrack-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188116\/","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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":3,"featured_media":188117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,34835,23125,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-188116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar","12":"tag-horse-racing","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115120236325787330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}