LOS ANGELES — Cody Dorman, the teenager who watched his namesake horse Cody's Wish win at the Breeders' Cup, has died. He was 17.
Dorman died Sunday after suffering a «medical event» on the family's way home to Kentucky after attending the world championships at Santa Anita last week, according to a statement from his parents posted Monday on Godolphin Racing's social media account.
Dorman was born with the rare genetic disorder Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and the effects include delayed growth and development, intellectual disability, low muscle tone and seizures.
He used a wheelchair. «With Cody's diagnosis at birth, we always knew this day would come, but we were determined to help Cody live his best life for however long we had him,» the boy's parents, Kelly and Leslie Dorman, wrote.