Omaha Beach is out of the Kentucky Derby. The news is just the latest blow to a sport that has been socked by a wave of bad news.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Kentucky Derby is here, but the hot topic around Churchill Downs suddenly isn’t about which horse is going to win the Run for the Roses. It’s about which horse isn’t running.
Late Wednesday afternoon, the Derby favorite Omaha Beach was scratched due to an entrapped epiglottis—a cartilage at the base of a horse’s airway that could hinder breathing.
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