East End Tap is alive, says trainer & co-owner
“He’s alive, I bathe him up to yesterday [May 6],” the surprised Simmonds told this news agency after being contacted following an announcement on NDP Radio last evening, May 7, 2012 that the horse was put to sleep on Saturday.
Host of the programme, Eileene Parsons, had expressed her sadness over the horse’s supposed demise.
But Simmonds wants to assure fans that East End Tap, winner of the 3rd leg of the VI Triple Crown, though injured, is resting in his stables.
On April 27, 2012, at the Clinton E. Phipps race track in St. Thomas, USVI, the seven year-old gelding fractured his Sesamoid bone located in the right front leg during the Governor’s Cup race.
On April 29, Simmonds had told Virgin Islands News Online that they were awaiting a veterinarian who was being flown in from Miami, to determine whether the prided VI horse would be able to be "up and running" as a pleasure horse or would have had to be put to sleep based on his injuries.
And according to Simmonds yesterday May 7, East End Tap’s leg is still swollen, however, by week-end the horse will be allowed “on the track” to see if it can walk.
“The Vet told us to just monitor him…we already know he can’t compete again, I just want him to be a pleasure horse,” the trainer added.
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