imallin Wrote:
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> All hell breaks loose if Barbaro is scratched.
> Pimlico loses millions and millions of betting
> pool money, america is denied a triple crown shot
> and the vet comes under intense PERSONAL
> scrutiny.
>
> Imagine if you were the vet who scracthed Barbaro
> and it comes out that nothing is wrong with
> him....you have firebombs thrown thru your windows
> at your home. You probably get fired because you
> cost Maryland millions of dollars of revenue.
>
> I'm not sure how a vet can look at a horse and
> determine if he's ok or not to run unless the
> injury is so obvious that anyone can see it.
> There's no time to get out a machine and do an MRI
> on the horse to see if its all ok. You can just go
> on what you see and if the horse is standing and

yes, paragraph 2 is the risk, of course...I'd take it - and I am NOT redboarding...if this race was as KNLD, would he be scratched? something to ponder.
> bouncing around you just assume he's ok.