Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

In this case, it wasn't the horse's fault. It was the connection's fault. they should have never run that horse in the Travers last year. that horse's splint was not healed yet. A frined of mine who is one of th ebst horseman in the business was at Saratoga on Travers day last year. He told me the horse's ankle was still a mess and that the horse should not be running. He told me the horse would never run again. He said that you could see the splint was starting to push in on the suspensory. He said that the horse probably needed about 3-4 months at the farm after the Derby and the horse would have probably been fine. They only gave him about two months because they were so desperate to make the late-summer and Fall races. They started back too soon with him before the splint had healed and they have nobody to blame but themselves.