Re: "Thats Horseracing" (608 Views)
Posted by:
sighthound (IP Logged)
Date: May 21, 2006 12:23AM
Sometimes bad stuff just happens. Nothing to do with drugs, or breeding, or training or racing practices. One unfortunate bad step. One small crack. Another step at racing speed with 1000+ pounds on the unstable leg and small damage now is a shattered mess no matter how fast the jock pulls the horse up, no matter how athletic the horse to gallop on three legs as much as he can (and I couldn't believe Barbaro could gallop even one stride and stay up holding that leg out, let alone with 126 lbs on his back)
I suppose one could do nuclear scintigraphy on all four legs prior to every race.