Ten-year-old stallion Always Dreaming , the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, died Dec. 10 in Oklahoma, according to bloodstock agent Chad Schumer and River Oaks Farms co-owner Francisco Bravo. He died from a burst cecum, Schumer said, and Bravo noted the horse had been dealing with a recent bout of colic.
A burst cecum is the rupture of the first part of the large intestine, which causes the contents of the bowel to spill into the abdominal cavity. A cecal impaction most commonly causes it.
The stallion would have stood next year at River Oaks Farms in Sulphur, Okla, after previously standing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky following his retirement from racing. Schumer brokered the transaction that sent Always Dreaming to Oklahoma, where he was to become the first Derby winner to stand in that state. He arrived at River Oaks Farms in September, Bravo said.
“He showed some symptoms of discomfort on Thursday, I believe, and…
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