Re: Rear breakdowns (613 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: May 22, 2006 08:01PM
gatodelsol Wrote:
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> I've seen far too many horses breakdown and seen
> them do a great many crazy things (e.g. run into
> the concrete retaining wall at crc because it
> refused to turn into the stretch; jump into the
> infield lake at Hia just a couple of strides from
> winning a turf race), but I have never seen a
> horse breakdown behind. Very odd.
Not sure it matters much which leg a horse breaks and could be mistaken, but Izvestia may have broken down in a rear ankle also.
It was his rear. Heres the story:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D91438F932A15753C1A967958260
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