Stuart Janney III\u2019s Grade 1 racehorse, Five Birds, tragically passed away on November 29th after suffering a fatal injury during training. The initial report came from Daily Racing Form. <\/p>\n
According to the New York State Gaming Commission\u2019s horse injury database, the 2-year-old, trained by Shag McGaughey, endured a catastrophic injury to his left front leg as well as a neck injury while working out at Belmont Park. Another horse, Daphne Valentina, involved in the same exercise, was taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Five Birds had recently won a 6.5-furlong maiden special race by half a length on August 23 at Saratoga\u2019s main track, and finished third by nearly three lengths in the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes on October 4. The horse was a daughter of Maxfield and was raised by her owners in Kentucky.<\/p>\n
This report was originally published by the Paulick Report on December 1, 2025, in the Horse Care section.<\/p>\n
Fan Take: The loss of a promising young horse like Five Birds is deeply felt by the racing community, highlighting the risks involved in training elite racehorses. This tragedy serves as a reminder of the ongoing need for improved safety measures to protect these incredible athletes and preserve the sport\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stuart Janney III\u2019s Grade 1 racehorse, Five Birds, tragically passed away on November 29th after suffering a fatal injury during training. The initial report came from Daily Racing Form. According to the New York State Gaming Commission\u2019s horse injury database, the 2-year-old, trained by Shag McGaughey, endured a catastrophic injury to his left front leg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2955],"class_list":{"0":"post-30182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fighting","8":"tag-horse-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}