The multiple stakes winner Trigger Warning was euthanized on Tuesday, a day after sustaining a condylar fracture while gamely prevailing in a photo finish in the Steel Valley Sprint.
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens on Tuesday said he is retiring from riding after doctors informed him he has a spinal injury that could lead to a far more serious issue if he were to fall.
Cloud Computing, whose career since he won the 2017 Preakness Stakes was marked by fits and starts due to injury, has officially been retired and will enter stud in 2019 at Spendthrift Farm.
Smokin Nitro, the ninth-place finisher in the $250,000 Steel Valley Sprint at Mahoning Valley Race Course on Monday in all likelihood should have been declared a non-starter after only one of the gate doors to his stall in the starting gate opened.
On Saturday night, The Meadowlands will host the final Grand Circuit races of its 2018 season. The finals for both the TVG Championship and Freshman Fall Final Four will be raced on a card that will boast nearly $3 million in purses.
