Belmont Stakes winner Arcangelo gave trainer Jena Antonucci her second major Grade 1 victory. Yet the day at Saratoga was marred by the deaths of two horses.
Tragedy unfolded in the closing stages of the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial (G1) for 3-year-old sprinters Saturday at Saratoga Race Course when favorite New York Thunder looked en route to a clear victory but fell at the sixteenths pole. The Nyquist colt suffered a catastrophic injury to his left front fetlock and was euthanized on the track.
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