I Wish the Hits
… wouldn’t keep coming.
Minutes after Chelokee was vanned off the track, word came through in the press box that Legendary Racing Hall of Fame trainer Frank Whiteley died.
Stronach, Frankel, and Bejarano, winners of the Louisville Handicap and the Alysheba are the only ones having a good day, I think.
Racing is always funny that way. It’s such a tremendous accomplishment to win a stakes race, and it’s tough to balance good cheer for connections with proper respect for bad circumstances.
RIP, Frank Whiteley, and godspeed Chelokee, who is en route to Rood and Riddle in Lexington after suffering a condylar fracture in his right front leg.
