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Go talk to any cutting horse trainer and ask them what the percentages are for injured 3 year olds. They think nothing of it, and pretty much expect it!

I have a QH filly bred for cutting and working cowhorse, but I refuse to put her into training at such a young age. I want to be riding her for a long time...and really think that when she gets of age, she may enjoy ld's or even 50's. She loves being out, so why risk injury now just so I can say..."look at me, I have a cutter"...

 

Lori

Linda Marins <coldeye22@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

From: Merri

By Robert M. Miller, DVM

The Nation was shocked when Barbaro broke down shortly after leaving the gate at the Preakness. ..

The last time the general public was exposed to a racetrack tragedy like this was when the great filly, Ruffian, fractured; the injury eventually resulting in her death...

 

Ruffian? That's an odd thing to say.  What about Go for Wand?  Or the

two older mares, favorite and second favorite, who both broke down

in the Breeder's Cup Distaff two years ago?  And another horse--a

great European competitor--who had to be destroyed after breaking down

during the Breeder's Cup just last year?

 

I tell you, I've watched and enjoyed horse racing all my life, even worked

as a groom at Hollywood Park once upon a time, and I can no

longer stomach it.

 

And to top it off, the TV coverage no longer even treats it as a

tragedy.  When Go for Wand broke down, CBS covered the

shock, anguish, and sorrow in the stands.  I remember Shug

McGhaughey, whose greaet mare Bayakoa had been duelling

with Go for Wand down the stretch, openly crying as the

reporter interviewed him.

 

Now the cut-rate, never-heard-of-it "network" that televises the

Breeder's Cup handles it by having its bozo commentators

look a little embarrassed for a few seconds, mumble something

about "It's always such a tragedy, of course" and then it's on to

"Here are the odds for the next race..."

 

Linda Marins