Bowman's Band dies after surgery.THE Lane's End stallion Bowman's Band was put down on Saturday at Rood rood (r  d), crucifix mounted above the entrance to the chancel and flanked by large figures of the Virgin and St. and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky,
following complications from colic colic, intense pain caused by spasmodic contractions of one of the hollow organs, e.g., the stomach, intestine, gall bladder, ureter, or oviduct. The cause of colic is irritation and/or obstruction, and the irritant and/or obstruction may be a stone (as in the gall surgery.
By Dixieland Band and out of the Kentucky Oaks runner-up Hometown Queen, he won seven races, including the Grade 2 Meadowlands Breeders' Cup. He was Dixieland Band's leading money-earner. His first crop are runners this year, and from five starters he has two winners, Just Humms and Miss Charm City, as well as two placed runners. |
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