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yup, just watched a news story this morning. all focused on the track surface. Not once did they mention the age of the horses.

 

sigh

Barbara Moulton <outermostsoul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> grrrrrrrrrr..... early morning news is going on and on
> about every racing problem except baby abuse ...NOW
> they are saying those TB are bred just too fast for
> their legs and those thin legs are so fragile and they
> are inbred too- change the tracks to synthetic and
> don't inbreed so much will be well.
>
> Back to the recent thread on the HPT trim re: the NV
> course this coming Memorial Day week- KC teaches to
> analyse the "spectrum of usabilty" as the scale to
> what activity your horse is structurally capable of
> without immediette or long term damage- DO NO HARM. 
> He doesn't believe any horse is
>  capable of high stress
> work until all 10 hoof structures are fit for the job
> expected. Everthing is connected... If you exceed the
> hoof spectrum the connecting structures (
> tendon/bone/joints) all get overwhelmed. Something
> will fail, if you shoe for soundness then steel shoes
> prevent the hoof wall from the natural responses to
> stress so the training lameness expected from
> exceeding the spectrum with babies just moves up the
> leg to the weakest link for each particluar horse.
>
> My friend Karen who used to race paints was telling
> me Friday about the $500. a hoof custom shoes/pad
> system that Big Brown was wearing and I told her if he
> needs that level of "artificial" support then he is
> NOT sound to run/race. We argue a lot about racing and
> she is a good sport about it but sadly the facts are
> on my side. I heard about the derby on the radio and
> as soon as they said tragedy and details were coming
> up next-I guessed it was
>  Big Brown who went down.
>
> On his web page eqinepodiatry.net there is a link to a
> UK racing stable which is becoming very sucessful
> buying slow racing rejects for peanuts then
> rehabilitating them and restarting them as more mature
> horse on sound BARE feet in front and shod in back-
> they have this really cool cool salt water treadmill
> too.
>
> Barbara in idaho
>
>
>
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