The Grade 1-winning 8-year-old gelding Two Emmys was euthanized after breaking his leg during a workout Sunday morning at Fair Grounds.  Trainer and principal owner Hugh Robertson confirmed that Two Emmys had been put down after falling near the finish line at the end of his first timed workout since the gelding won the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes on Dec. 23, his first start since February.  Two Emmys did not break down, according to Robertson and other sources who were present during training hours Sunday, but rather was injured when a horse ran into him at about the quarter pole. Robertson watches his horses train from a stand at about the half-mile pole on the backstretch and didn’t clearly see what befell Two Emmys, but he said Sunday night that two people who witnessed the incident told him a spooked horse made contact with Two Emmys, pushing him into the inner rail. Robertson termed the situation “totally avoidable.” Fair Grounds jockey Jareth Loveberry watched the entire sequence of events unfold and said a horse near the starting gate became fearful, and that the horse’s exercise rider was unable to control his mount. The horse backed steadily and fearfully across the racetrack, outside to inside, narrowly missing several horses who were breezing before running into Two Emmys. Robertson said Two Emmys fractured his radius above the knee. That’s an unusual injury for a racehorse; a horse that has broken down typically fractures the ankle joint or bones between the ankle and the knee.  “I’ve been at the track 52 years and only had one other horse with that injury,” said Robertson. James Graham, Two Emmys's regular race rider, was working Two Emmys and was “body sore and very shook up,” according to his agent, Doug Bredar. Graham took off his mounts Sunday but plans to resume riding Thursday. Robertson owned Two Emmys in partnership with Wolfe Racing. The gelding, by English Channel out of Miss Emmy, by Buddha, was named for two of the owners’ family members, and Robertson had discovered and purchased the horse at Keeneland’s September yearling sale of 2017. Robertson, a master at finding diamonds in the rough at the September sale, paid $4,500 for Two Emmys, who earned nearly $1 million.  Two Emmys, who began breezing during the summer of 2018 at Arlington, was a fixture for six calendar years in Robertson’s Chicago and New Orleans-based stable. Two Emmys ran for a $20,000 claiming tag in his second start before beginning a steady arc of development that culminated in his win over North America’s top turf horse of 2021, Domestic Spending, in the Grade 1 Mr. D Stakes (formerly and subsequently the Arlington Million) in August that year. Two Emmys won the 2022 Muniz Memorial, Fair Grounds’ top turf race, after finishing second to the high-class Colonel Liam in the 2021 renewal. His demise made for a bleak Sunday at Fair Grounds. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.