ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Tin Cup Chalice and another horse were euthanized Friday after a training accident at Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack.
Tin Cup Chalice was the first horse to sweep the Big Apple Triple for 3-year-olds bred in New York. The gelding was jogging near the outside fence at the track in Farmington, 25 miles southeast of Rochester, when he collided with Zany, a 4-year-old colt that had bolted.
Jockey Pedro Rodriguez was treated at a Rochester hospital for undisclosed injuries and released. Both horses were destroyed. Tin Cup Chalice sustained a catastrophic spinal injury, a veterinarian said.
In August, Tin Cup Chalice won by a head at Saratoga Race Course in the $150,000 Albany Stakes for 3-year-olds bred in New York. It was the first sweep of the Big Apple Triple, a series that includes the Mike Lee Handicap at Belmont Park and the New York Derby at Finger Lakes.
Tin Cup Chalice was the 2008 Horse of the Year at Finger Lakes after earning $827,280.
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