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It's so impossible to predict, and to generalize. Crandell's horse  
was supposedly (historically) the calm predictable horse (he wasn't  
this time). Kanavy's horse did the PAC in Argentina in 2005 - well  
behaved and top finisher. Brunjes' horse Theatric does have  
'theatric' tendencies, but is a brilliant athlete and has always  
pulled through and has never before had the recovery issues he had at  
the first vetgate.  Sometimes the world just changes on us.

Steph

> >>
> In our sport, we really should be looking for horses that have at  
> least some aptitude to tolerate chaos--the more mentally-fragile  
> ones present a danger to their riders and to those around them if  
> things go wrong.  At levels of competition like the WEC, we really  
> should be seeing horses that can handle the stress of the chaos,  
> since the inability to handle it not only reflects in outbursts but  
> also in metabolic ways. >>

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