Re: RC: Abusive rider - Oakland Hills

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 04:48 PM 7/1/00 -0700, bkcbs@hotmail.com wrote:

        The indisputable point is, had this horse not raced he'd be alive today.

I'm not sure I follow your thinking.  Reports are that the horse did
fine at the vet checks.  No one has posted (or I have not read a
post) saying what the cause of death was, but it does seem likely to be
related to falling down the ravine - which might have happened to any
horse/rider team, even if they'd been on a pleasure ride at a slow 3
mph   pace over that section of trail.  I don't see that
there is anything indisputable about racing being related to the cause of
death.  Whether or not the rider is/was abusive aside from that is
another issue entirely, isn't it?  Lif

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