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The most expensive yearling ever bought in the southern hemisphere was humanely put down yesterday following a battle with laminitis.
BC3 Thoroughbred colt known to the world as ‘Jimmy’ was purchased in the Inglis Easter Sales earlier this year and is a half brother to Black Caviar.
Laminitis is inflammation of the soft tissue around the pedal bone of a horse’s hoof. It is painful and leads to instability in a horse’s hoof.
The debilitating hoof injury had been troubling the colt for close to two months.
Jimmy was being treated for his injury at the Melbourne University Veterinary Hospital in Werribee before the decision was made the colt couldn’t be helped.
It is understood that Inglis has not been paid the $5 million owed to them by BC3, the colt was insured.
Mark Webster, William Inglis Chief Executive said that it was believed that:
“Laminitis was developed after suffering an adverse reaction to antibiotics, which were being used to treat his swollen leg when admitted to the hospital in early November,” he said.
“As the younger sibling to champions Black Caviar and All Too Hard, we all had great expectations for Jimmy on the track and in the breeding barn. This is a very sad outcome for all involved.”
John Hawkes, who was training the colt in partnership with his sons Michael and Wayne, said he felt sadness following Jimmy’s passing.
“In a sense, it was the right thing to do because the poor horse would have been suffering, he would have been in a lot of pain,” he said.
Laminitis is difficult for horses to overcome, some of the greatest racehorses of all time have died from the condition.
This list includes American horse Secretariat and New Zealand’s Sunline.
The saddest outcome is that the racing industry will never get to see what this horse could’ve achieved.
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