William and Corinne Heiligbrodt's Ryvit won the $200,000 Chick Lang (G3) Saturday at Pimlico, but the race was marred by the fatal breakdown of favorite Havnameltdown in a horrific fall that sent jockey Luis Saez to the hospital.
Havnameltdown shattered his front ankle injury and fell on the stretch turn; he was be euthanized on the track, said Scott Hay, DVM, who is the AAEP's on-call veterinarian for Preakness Day.
Saez, complaining of leg pain, was put on a backboard and taken to a hospital.
An Uncaptured colt owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, Havnameltdown was a multiple graded stakes winner trained by Bob Baffert.
Prince of Jericho was second, and Frosted Departure finished third.
Ryvit ($12.80), a Competitive Edge colt out of the Medaglia d'Oro mare She Is Bedazzling, posted a fourth straight win and first in a graded event for trainer Steve Asmussen. He came into Saturday's race off his breakthrough stakes victory in the Bachelor April 29 at Oaklawn.
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