On average, horses with these fractures logged only 12.3 high-speed furlongs in the 60 days prior to injury. Horses with humeral fractures averaged only 5.9 high-speed furlongs in that same timeframe.

Horse racing has seen sharp declines in most types of equine musculoskeletal fatalities, but reductions to one particular type of injury— the shoulder fracture—have been less dramatic.

Rogers called it a "catastrophic injury" for the horse and said the exercise rider was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital with left shoulder ... about the 12 horses that have ...

Though he had worked horses after that ... the newspaper said. Alvarado’s shoulder injury, which left him sidelined for several weeks, came up during a brief interview with NBC reporter and ...