Shipping News Resting Comfortably

A day after his amazing journey, which started with a trip to the starting gate and wound up with a swim in the Tampa Bay Downs infield lake, the 4-year-old gelding Shipping News was resting comfortably in his stall Friday, nicked and bruised but none the worse for wear following one of the most bizarre episodes in this track’s history.

Shipping News’s eventful afternoon began when a field of eight maidens went to the gate Thursday in the seventh race, a 1 3/8-mile turf marathon. Shipping News, making his seventh career start, was a bit rank early in the race and became more and more erratic until jockey Carlos Motalvo pulled the horse up.

Shortly after coming to a halt, Shipping News became wobbly and collapsed on the turf, suffering from heat exhaustion. Large amounts of water were poured over the horse to cool him while vets Robert Calley and Holly Shine attended to him.

“We administered steroidal injections to held keep his blood pressure up, as well as Diazepam to calm him,” Calley said.

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