The TVG announcer was quick to apologize to the audience for "having to see that," referring to the upsetting pan shot of the colt Cloud Nine, obviously already dead or about to be dead, right at the finish line on the Aqueduct track

He had been pulled up, obvioulsy in distress, only about 100 yards out of the gate. . .eerily reminiscent of Barbaro's experience in the Preakness. [ed: to add to the unsettling coincidence, he catastrophically injured  his right hind leg, just like you-know-who] Tom Durkin, calling the race live, announced that there was a "dicey  situation" near the wire involving the "stricken" horse, and you could hear the concern in his voice as he hoped "out loud" that the runners would stay to the inside, near the rail and away from Cloud Nine.

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Why can't injured horses be "fixed?" Read this article from The Horse

I don't even want to tell you what could have happened. . . It was an awful site, but the horse was obviously no longer in distress, and seemed entirely "at peace," compared to the horror that was endured by Eight Belles before she could be euthanized.