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27 horses killed in
Kentucky barn fire
A FIRE that swept through a barn at a former racetrack in Western Kentucky on Thursday morning has claimed the lives of 27 thoroughbreds.
The fire was the second of the year at Riverside Downs, on the border with Indiana and used as a training centre. No cause for the blaze has been determined, which occurred between5 and 5.30am.
Horses stabled at Riverside Downs compete at tracks in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio.
Among the horses lost was Kept Lady, a recent winner at Churchill Downs for owner Kenny Miller of Evansville, Indiana.
"This business comes with a a lot of highs and it comes with a lot of lows," said Miller. "And the low that you don't want is what happened today. You can survive losing races. You can go all year without winning races. But when you lose everything, it's a low you don't want to go to; it's a tragedy you don't want to get a phone call about."
According to the Blood-Horse, trainers who lost horses include Bobby Larue, Benjie Larue, Jerry Joe Greenwell, Shirley Greene, Kim Nesbitt, Kenny Miller and Billy Stinson.
Six horses died at Riverside in January in a fire blamed on a faulty vending-machine electrical cord.
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