Phillip Dutton’s CCI*** mount Baileywick, owned by Acorn Hill Farms in Madison, Va., was euthanized immediately after a fall on the cross-country course at the Jersey Fresh CCI in Allentown, N.J., today, May 9. A necropsy was not performed, at the owners’ request.

The fall occurred at Fence 20, the Saw Tooth Oxer. The large, square oxer did have a frangible pin on its back log, but the gelding caught his forearms on the front rail, which did not have a release pin, and rotated over it. Dutton was thrown clear and was unhurt, and he was able to ride his two CIC*** mounts later in the day.

Baileywick, a 10-year-old, chestnut Irish Sport Horse gelding (Pallas Digion—Northern Axis), was a fairly experienced advanced-level horse, having placed 10th at the Fair Hill CCI*** (Md.) last October with Dutton.

“It was just one of those terrible moments where it didn’t go his way and the horse’s way,” said Boyd Martin, who competed Baileywick while Dutton was away last summer for the Olympic Games. “It was a pretty damp feeling in the barn after that. He was a really class horse, and if you look at the horse’s history, it deserved to be here. It was just one of those terrible moments in our sport that’s dreaded.”