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Originally Posted by Danzig
i'm beginning to really wonder just how much the powers that be at these tracks really know about anything.
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They dont know much but really dont know a thing about horses. The study that is used as the gold standard in banning toe grabs is old and flawed. The funny thing is that supposedly the main evil of toe grabs is that it stops the natural slide of a horses foot when it strikes the ground. Yet we are told that synthetic tracks are safer however they also prohibit the natural slide of the horses foot. Call me crazy but toe grabs didnt seem to be a big problem for horses at anytime in history yet when we banned them we have seen virtually no change in breakdown rates and in some places an increase. (though most breakdown numbers are statistically irrelevant)