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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Seabiscuit - Deanna GermanI wondered that too and decided that *maybe* the diagnosis wasn't completely accurate. Even now, don't some causes of lameness still often end up being someone's best guess? This despite the tools and techniques available now that weren't available in the 1930's. Then again, how in the heck did Red Pollard continue to ride? Heart, desire and drive. DG on 4/23/03 11:15 PM, Barbara McCrary at bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: One of the things I found particularly interesting about Seabiscuit was that he had a torn suspensory ligament at one time, yet came back to race again, and successfully. I've had four different endurance horses with torn suspensories, all due to hyperextension at the trot. None of them was really good at endurance afterwards. They all would come up slightly off during a 50 miler, so they all were retired for pleasure. I still have one of them, and he's perfect for training rides around home, but I probably wouldn't try to compete him again. I wonder how Seabiscuit managed to recover so well...... Barbara =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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