Graded winner Non Compliant dies after training injury
Non Compliant, winner of the Grade 2 Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita last year, was fatally injured while training at Los Alamitos on Thursday.
Her death previously was reported by Ray Paulick of Paulick Report.
Though Non Compliant was not named at the Thursday meeting of the California Horse Racing Board, the board's equine medical director Dr. Jeff Blea discussed a suspected shoulder fracture that had happened that morning, according to Paulick Report. More specifics are pending a necropsy. Blea said the injured horse had been examined by veterinarians before being permitted to train and that she had not been going at high speed when the injury happened.
Non Compliant is the only horse listed in the California Horse Racing Board's musculoskeletal equine fatality database for April 17. She is Bob Baffert's second documented training fatality this year, according to the database. The first happened April 3 at Los Alamitos, when Willy, an unraced 4-year-old Mitole colt, suffered a fatal injury. Specifics on his injury also are pending a necropsy.
Non Compliant was a 3-year-old daughter of 2020 Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law out of the Grade 3-placed Street Sense mare Sensitively. Undefeated in two starts, she earned $165,000 on the track. She broke her maiden on debut at Del Mar last August, tracking the pace and overhauling odds-on Margarita Girl to win by 1 1/2 lengths. She returned to win the Oak Leaf by 2 1/4 lengths as the even-money favorite over stablemate Nooni, with fellow Baffert trainee Tenma in third.
Non Compliant was entered in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but was scratched from the race. According to an Oct. 29 announcement on Facebook by Georgia Antley Hunt, who owned Non Compliant in partnership with Jeff Giglio and John Rogitz, "something came up on a PET scan that wasn't right," and her connections planned to give her 60 days off before returning her to training. Non Compliant had not yet posted a published work since her scratch from the Breeders' Cup.