Four horses have died in the week leading up to the running of the 149th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, casting a pall over this year’s occasion of the iconic race.
One of the horses that died was supposed to be on the track on Saturday: Wild On Ice suffered an injury to one of his hind legs last Thursday and was taken to a hospital where he was euthinised. The horse, which won the Sunland Derby earlier this year, was just three years old.
