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Last Saturday at the Churchill Down racetrack in Kentucky (USA) a jockey accidentally was euthanized after he fell of his horse and broke his leg. The jockey was injected with a drug that is commonly used to euthanize horses.
The leg was so severely broken that trainers were forced to perform emergency medical procedures on location and accidentally injected him with a lethal dose of the drug barbiturates. 'I really had no idea what to do,' said horse trainer Joseph Goldsmith, 'I was...