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Originally Posted by pgardn
Did ligaments get little tears, or tendons, or bones already spliced
and just split all the way.
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That's pretty much the gist of it. Certainly if she was pulled up midstretch she wouldn't have the same catastrophic injuries she had past the wire...but I would bet that she would have had some detectable injury (-ies), likely at least one 'hairline' (ie incomplete) ankle fracture. Most race-related injuries are the result of cumulative trauma (and this would include before the race, too), not single bad steps.
By the way, I'm not trying to say the jockey should have pulled her up. Just making a case for the initial injuries to have occurred before the gallop out.