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Originally Posted by moodwalker
So you are asserting that if a horse is "a nice filly" they aren't capable of wheeling back like that? What about all of the "nice fillies" that do this all year in Australia?
Do you know if Angara was hurting, or sore? Maybe she was in good shape and the races didn't take much out of her.
Some horses can run numerous times in a preparation and be fine, unless you were there with Angara and Biancone, how would you know?
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All kidding aside, I don't know anything about what they do in Austarlia. I don't know why horses seemed to be able to run more often in this country 30 years ago.
I do know that right now in this country, horses don't last or stay in form if you run them every 2-3 weeks. I wouldn't run a claiming horse every 2-3 weeks, let alone a stakes horse. Why do you think that the good horses only run about 6 times a year or so? If they could run these horses every 2-3 weeks and get 15 races a year out of them, they would do it. It's not like trainers are the most altruistic guys in the world. It's actually the opposite. Most trainers are pretty greedy.
Some horses are obviously more fragile than others. You don't treat every horse the same way, but there is no horse that I would run every 2-3 weeks. I think all the top trainers would agree with me. You don't see Pletcher or Frankel running their horses every 2-3 weeks.
I think running Angara every 2-3 weeks definitely took its toll on her. Her last few races of the year were not good.