Vaccines, man.Exact same thing happened two or three weeks ago. WTF is happening?
I wonder if it has to do with the ban on turning aged horses into dog food. The number of thoroughbred horses getting themselves born plummeted because it's very expensive to keep a horse. As a result breeders didn't spend a generation trying to get sturdy stock into their lines.Exact same thing happened two or three weeks ago. WTF is happening?
Has to be something in the way they're training them, including the medications. I don't see it could be anything else. Left on their own, horses are born to run and run on much more challenging terrain than an immaculately maintained race track
Idk how it is at other tracks.. but saratoga always has a few horses every year that need to be put down.
Not sure if this would be part of the issue.. but we've had a ton of rain this summer. I went to Toga a few times this year and it was more or less a washout. I want to say this July was one of the wettest for upstate NY.
Those are COMPLETELY different horses and builds than race horses man, I mean like almost another species.Undoubtedly true but horses in the wild, on farms, etc navigate much worse conditions with much less human care, with seemingly way better results.
Unless everywhere they're just falling like flies without notoriety
Those are COMPLETELY different horses and builds than race horses man, I mean like almost another species.
That’s like an NBA player spraining an ankle after a huge dunk coming down from 5’ in the air and you saying, “Been shooting jumpers all day in the driveway and I don’t get hurt…”
2020 21 horses died and Saratoga, 14 this year. 1/3 less than 3 years ago.I get what you're saying but these same horses over the years navigated much worse conditions with much fewer problems. Something changed the last few years and it isn't in the genetics because many of these horse come from only the best stock.
2020 21 horses died and Saratoga, 14 this year. 1/3 less than 3 years ago.
Gotcha, I was just saying it’s not just this year and there have been worse years but the media and plenty of people it seems thinks 8 Belles was the only horse ever put down till this year.