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JR

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Sailor's Cap
« on: June 17, 2009, 12:26:51 PM »
Anybody know what happened?
JR

Lost Cause

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 12:43:25 PM »
JR Wrote:
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> Anybody know what happened?

Barry Irwin was quoted in the article..maybe he has some insight..

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/51280/sailors-cap-dies-days-after-winning-poker

imallin

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 12:56:46 PM »
Condolences Barry.

Barry Irwin

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 01:32:13 PM »
What a game this is!

The horse spiked a temp yesterday.

It never got above 102, which is not very high.

Suddenly, at 4:30 Wednesday morning, he simply collapsed in his stall at Belmont Park.

We are having an autopsy performed.

J. J. Toner suspects that he may have had an undected abscess in a lung that may have burst under the stress of the race. He did have a lung infection last year.

I am mystified.

jack72906

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 04:27:24 PM »
Sorry for the loss Barry.

jma11473

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 07:26:28 PM »
That\'s terrible Barry, my condolences.

Ian Meyers

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Re: Sailor's Cap Dies Days After Winning Poker
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2009, 09:14:08 AM »
Barry, my condolences as well.  You guys did a great job with him throughout his way too short career.

Barry Irwin

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Re: Sailor's Cap
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2009, 03:32:30 AM »
FYI, initial necropsy shows that he died of probable cardiac arrest from an underlying condition of Colitis X  
(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1790040) caused by the deadly bacteria Clostridium perfringens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_perfringens).

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Re: Sailor's Cap
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2009, 09:42:47 AM »
Barry, that\'s a terrible thing.  My condolences to you all.  Thank you for sharing that private info and making it public.  That\'s good for the sport.