Secretariat Died Of Laminitis

Secretariat died in 1989 due to laminitis at age 19.

Secretariat died of laminitis. Secretariat was suffering from laminitis a painful and usually incurable degenerative disease of the sensitive inner tissues of the hoofs. He is recognized as one of the greatest horses in racing history. Nicknamed big red the 16 2 hand copper colored chestnut had three white stockings right front and both hind legs and a star stripe and snip. Secretariat was officially bred by christopher chenery s meadow stud but the breeding was actually arranged by penny chenery then known as penny.

Racing legend secretariat was put down on oct. All the king s horses and all the king s men couldn t put secretariat back together again as the nursery rhyme goes. Once the laminitis sets in it either gets better or it doesn t so there is no way to know if that would have been different. In fact he.

After watching the movie made on secretariat i just had to find out why he died. Secretariat suffered from severe laminitis a chronic and painful hoof disease just prior to his death. Secretariat was owned by penny chenery during his racing days and was voted one of the top 50 athletes of the twentieth century by espn. Secretariat had cushings disease which lead to the laminitis.

After looking up all the information on laminitis i was sure neglect was the reason secretariat died it was painful to read this. First thing i thought of when i saw he died at only 19 was that someone was not taking good care of this precious one of a kind being. I think there may have been enough advances in cushings research since then that things may have been different if it happened today. On october 4 1989 the decision was made to humanely euthanize him.

On labor day secretariat had come down with laminitis a life threatening hoof disease and here a month later he was still suffering from its aftershocks. Gus koch assistant manager at claiborne where secretariat stood at stud said the stallion suffered from an incurable condition known as laminitis an inflammation of the inside of the hoof.