Animal welfare groups are calling for an investigation into the death of high-profile Melbourne Cup runner Anthony Van Dyck, who had to be euthanised after failing to finish the race.
The 2019 English Derby winner was rated one of the best horses sent to Australia for the spring campaign, but was injured in the final few hundred metres of Tuesday’s race.
Racing Victoria said the horse had to be “humanely euthanised after sustaining a fractured fetlock”.
The five-year-old stallion is the seventh Melbourne Cup death in as many years, prompting calls for an investigation from the RSPCA.
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