Thoroughbreds injured in hit-and-run as Paris farm faces repeated crashes

PARIS, Ky. (WKYT) – Two young thoroughbreds are recovering after a hit-and-run crash Monday, the latest in a series of collisions that have cost a Paris horse farm more than $1 million.

Kelli Cross, managing partner of Sovereign Farm, said her husband was hauling two yearlings to the swimming pool Monday morning when a driver rear-ended their trailer on Paris Pike and didn’t stop.

The impact sent the yearlings to the ground. Cross said both horses are back home recovering, but the lasting effects and their value at July’s auction are still unknown.

Repeated crashes

Cross says she’s been hit five times total, three times by uninsured drivers and another two where the driver took off. One of those landed her and her husband in the hospital for months and cost them more than $1 million…

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