Re: Dead Horses Tell No Tales (558 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: August 14, 2007 08:26PM
miff Wrote:
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> CTC said,
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> "It may be that the subject horses did not all run
> last race career tops. If they didn't it wouldn't
> change the fact that their deaths were Not random.
> But a finding by Tgraph that they were career tops
> would add even more weight to the issue"
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>
>
> ....run a top on TG and risk dying!! Hee Hee.
> Chuck, surely, you had too many beers when you
> posted that.The idea that horses that run fast
> figs breakdown or die more often than slower
> runners is only opinion with no facts to support
> it.
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[b]Miff, you've taken a very focused premise and expanded it to the ends of the universe. I said no such thing. I said that the Non Random Sample of Plech's August 2002 Die Off Ran Fast in their last races. Won those races and died within days thereafter, even from all things as One Week Accellerated Laminitis.[/b][/color]
Most breakdowns/injuries, app 20 to 1 at NY
> tracks,occur during training, breezing, jogging
> etc as opposed to during a race(natch,they train
> far more often than they run).To what extent the
> PREVIOUS race/races plays in breakdowns is subject
> to widely varying opinions.
>
> It makes sense that powerful drugs could add up to
> death/breakdowns but that has not been proven
> yet.On a related subject, there are all sorts of
> RUMORS with regard to the case involving Patrick
> Biancone.It seems the KY racing authority has gone
> to unprecedented lengths to ensure their legal
> position before proceeding with their
> findings.Sounds ominous for the frenchman.
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>
>
> Mike
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>
> Mike