Drama in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot with Rewilding breaking down in the home straight. Reportedly the colt had broke the cannon bone (the bone between the knee and the fetlock) and it certainly looked liked a 'flail fracture' when the bone is broken so badly it would be untreatable leaving connections with no alternative but to have the animal put down which was done swiftly. Trainer of the winner Nathaniel John Gosden was interviewed on the BBC and said 'I attended the horse with the lad. He just put his leg down wrong and the cannon bone snapped clean in two... I've seen horses do that galloping in a paddock and it can happen at any time without warning.' Very upsetting for all concerned and my sympathies go to the Godolphin team and all involved with the horse..
Jockey Frankie Dettori was helped back to the Jockeys Room and is reportedly okay other than some bad bruising to his knee.
It is always difficult to talk about a race after such a tragedy but for the record Nathaniel won and looks a good progressive horse. Workforce, in finishing second, came as if he was going to take the race but then begun to hang to the left and over the final furlong or so continued to move across the track to end up almost on the stands rail in second. Having flopped in this race last year the Derby and Arc winner does not appear to like the Ascot track at all.
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