Re: How fast was it? (611 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: August 02, 2007 01:45PM
Two very good articles. A couple of things:
1-- Recently, a stake winning filly I manage was training very poorly (rubber legged after working a half). A vet suggested trying the high fat diet, she turned around immediately.
2-- On the milkshake question-- as I have posted before, there is now a milkshake in a pill, which is being broken up and mixed with the feed. I've talked pretty extensively with Rick Arthur about this (he's the state vet in California, pretty much the leading expert on this stuff), he says he has found that even slight increases in CO2 levels (the test for milkshakes) correlate with increased performance. No idea how he measures that.
3--As I have said many times here, the problem is that the legal threshold for CO2 is 37 or 39, depending on the state, when a horse can't produce more than around 30 on his own. We have made the drugging of horses legal.
4-- I wonder if "The Player", who wrote the second article, drives a white Mercedes.