Keep On Smokin, Hukill on the mend
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Keep On Smokin returned to training last week at Louisiana Downs after three months of intensive veterinary care to recover from second- and third-degree burns that he sustained in a barn fire that claimed the lives of 25 of the 32 horses stabled at a training center in the east Texas town of Canton.
"It's just been devastating, mentally, physically, and financially," said Charlie Hukill, the training center's owner and a longtime prominent owner and trainer at Louisiana Downs.
Keep On Smokin, a 3-year-old son of Smoke Glacken who ran fourth in two stakes last year at Louisiana Downs, returned to Hukill's local stable late last week after being treated for his injuries at two different equine hospitals in north Texas.
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