Kip Deville Succumbs to Laminitis

After a lengthy battle with laminitis and several bouts of colic, Kip Deville, winner of the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I), took a major turn for the worse this week and had to be euthanized at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., June 11.

Kip Deville appeared to be on his way to recovery in early March after having battled laminitis and colic for eight months. Foot specialist Ve

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After a lengthy battle with laminitis and several bouts of colic, Kip Deville, winner of the 2007 Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. I), took a major turn for the worse this week and had to be euthanized at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., June 11.

Kip Deville appeared to be on his way to recovery in early March after having battled laminitis and colic for eight months. Foot specialist Vernon Dryden informed IEAH Stables president Michael Iavarone at the time that Kip Deville "has maintained good comfort level and a good attitude. He is in good body condition and is eating well. The right front foot cast was changed yesterday and the solar surface is now 85% cornified. Kip is at a point in his recovery that we feel comfortable sending him to a local layup facility."

But the 7-year-old son of Kipling — Klondike Kaytie, by Encino regressed quickly this week and there was no other recourse but to put him out of his misery.

"It had been under control, but with laminitis, no one knows what under control is," Iavarone said. "It's such a disastrous situation with laminitis; you think it's going in right direction, but it can change so quickly. This tears the heart out of me; it kills me. He had no earnings potential as a stallion; we kept him alive for so long because he wanted to be alive and he deserved every chance. He fought hard every step of the way

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Steve Haskin is Senior Contributor to The Blood-Horse magazine, sister publication to The Horse.

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