Trigger Warning euthanized after winning Mahoning Valley stakes

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.

Trigger Warning, a 3-year-old son of Candy Ride, led throughout the Steel Valley Sprint on a sloppy, sealed track at Mahoning Valley in Austintown, Ohio. He gamely held off pace-pressing Bobby's Wicked One down the lane, winning by a nose. He was vanned off and transported to Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., in hopes of a surgical repair, but further examination revealed his injuries were too extensive to survive. The colt's injury and death were first reported by Horse Racing Nation.

Trigger Warning raced for Brinley Enterprises and was in the care of several trainers during his career, most recently saddled to his multiple stakes wins this season by Mike Rone. He put together a record of 16-5-1-3 and earned $555,378.

Minor stakes-placed last year at Turf Paradise, he won the Tom Ridge Stakes in May at Presque Isle Downs, and then spent the rest of the spring and summer competing in graded stakes company. The colt was third, beaten just over a length, in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby, and second by a head to Axelrod in the Grade 3 Indiana Derby. After running sixth in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes, Trigger Warning finished third to McKinzie and Axelrod in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby, and finished seventh in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile prior to his tilt in the Steel Valley Sprint.