Pass the Guinness Stout to a Future Eclipse winner
 

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...57/1002/SPORTS

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The 4-year-old filly Forever Together had a problem last year: She didn't sweat, and that's a horse's cooling system when it runs.

But that trouble is in the past, thanks to a daily happy hour of Guinness beer in Forever Together's afternoon mash.

"Thanks to Guinness Stout, she's now sweating," said owner George Strawbridge, adding jokingly, "Of course, that's assuming she gets her fair share. She loves the taste. And therefore she's eating her food. Before that, she wasn't eating."

While Sheppard expressed reservation about going to California for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf because of the long ship and hot weather, he acknowledged that "when you have a filly this good, and have a championship race, you've got to give it a long, hard look."

Strawbridge said, "I think after that performance today we'd have to try it." He also plans to run her next year "as long as we don't run out of Guinness."

Love her. I met her in Ocala at OBS and have followed her ever since. Love the grays. The fact that she has made me a few dollars doesn't hurt either. :)

A few decades ago, there was a story in the papers (or was it the Blood-Horse?) about a horse running at the newly created Calder summer meet in Florida who didn't sweat. Technically anhydrosis, a certain fraction of horses react that way to extreme heat and humidity. Trainer gave it beer to get it to sweat and it worked; accompanying photo showed the horse chugging down a bottle.