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Originally Posted by tomm5647
I know that the knowledge on this board can help me with this. If I'm playing a horse and he gets scratched and they list it as a vet scratch, is that a big negative? Often this happens and the horse is re-entered a week later. How should I feel about this? Is the horse playable if he looks well placed? Thanks in advance for any insight.
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It's very tough to gauge without knowing the particulars of the reason the horse was scratched. That information would be very helpful if provided to the public.
As it is, I think you have to use context clues to better estimate the meaning of a vet scratch. Is the horse turning around quickly and stepping up in class from the race he was scratched out of? In that case, I'm inclined to de-emphasize it. But was he a vet scratch out of a stronger race and then kept in jail so they could drop him? That's likely a bad sign.