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Originally Posted by freddymo
You can't possibly suggest that an owner with 100 head is suppose to be privy to all the medical issues of each and every animal.. Has far as we know.. ASS could have just told Jackson the horses didn't work out and Jess said lose him in a claimer..
So I bought this colt I send him to a quality trainer and he debuts with a 54 beyer and gets dinged up now my trainer after 4 months off gets the colt working again and says maybe we want to just go in claimer with the other dinged horses instead of a MSW.. Who am I to argue I hired the guy because he is suppose to have my best interests at heart and the horses. It's silly if you think I am going to retire him because he was laid up..
I am sorry the horse died but it happens and IMO Jackson is hardly to blame.
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Assuming for the sake of argument that he has 100 horses in training (not likely), not every horse, especially one purchased for $700K, is running every day. And I as said in an earlier post, either he or his racing manager likely OK'd the horse being dropped for a tag.
The issue is not about retiring the horse; it's about whether the horse was sound to run on the day in question. If not, then the owner always has the option of laying him up to get over the problem. That's why we see layoff lines in DRF every day.
Look, the reason I pointed this one out is because Jackson, in his holier than thou testimony before Congress last week, challenged the industry to look out for the welfare of the horse. All signs indicate that, as it relates to Vinstar, he did not heed his own words. Those in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones (especially given the hypocrisy of him using Asmussen as his trainer).