A necropsy has revealed that the 1999 Horse of the Year Charismatic died from a pelvic fracture, it was announced Tuesday. The GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero passed away suddenly at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, KY., Sunday.
“A necropsy performed at the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory revealed that Charismatic suffered a severe catastrophic fracture of his pelvis that resulted in fatal bleeding,” Bryan M. Waldridge, DVM, MS, and Rhodes P. Bell, DVM, MS, said in a statement. “Pelvic fractures will in some cases also lacerate the large arteries of the pelvis and cause severe internal bleeding. Fatal pelvic fractures are uncommon and usually unforeseeable. It is not possible to know exactly how the injury happened or any factors that may have led to its occurrence.”
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