Keep On Smokin returned to training last week at Louisiana Downs
after three months of intensive veterinary care to recover from second-
and third-degree burns that he sustained in a barn fire that claimed the
lives of 25 of the 32 horses stabled at a training center in the east
Texas town of Canton.
"It's just been devastating, mentally, physically, and financially," said Charlie Hukill, the training center's owner and a longtime prominent owner and trainer at Louisiana Downs.
Keep On Smokin, a 3-year-old son of Smoke Glacken who ran fourth in
two stakes last year at Louisiana Downs, returned to Hukill's local
stable late last week after being treated for his injuries at two
different equine hospitals in north Texas.
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