According to NPR radio - and I don't know why it made their national show - the "independant" study team is getting the vet records and doing blood samples for each of the 17 horses that broke down.

Some of the horsemen I have talked to out here feel that too much of the discussion about track safety ignores the animal - in terms of both soundness and medication as well as the trainer's responsibility for running a sound horse.

It may sound almost farsical, but one of the indictments against the trainer and blacksmith in the English betting scandal is that they ran a lame horse and did not tell anyone and bet against it. Which is worse???

Delmar Deb