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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
Where to begin ... where to begin ...
First of all ... you're fortunate that I've raised two exceptional children to adulthood ........ no wait ... that was my last post.
Ummm ... Rupe ... what you're doing is making an assumption that horses who race less frequently are more sound ... and therefore ...
[a] If they run even less frequently ... they'll become even more sound ... and ...
[b] If they run more frequently ... they'll become less sound.
You're using circular reasoning to reinforce a premise which is not only false to begin with ... but which is contadicted by actual experience.
What Phalaris and I have been proposing ... all backed by actual racing history ... is that when horses begin their racing careers earlier ... receiving training and racing appropriate to their individual needs ... they'll become MORE fit ... not LESS fit ...
... and much more able to withstand the rigors of a career as a professional athlete. Do you understand that?
Let's make an imperfect analogy ... suppose Earl Woods had waited until Tiger was 21 to take him to a golf course ... how good a golfer do you think Tiger would (wood?) be today?
Take a look at all the best human athletes in every sport ... when did they start to play and how frequently did they play? Right ... they started when they were kids ... and they played until their mothers came to drag them home.
Can you understand that? An earlier start in the sport ... earlier training and earlier conditioning and frequent participation ... makes an athlete BETTER able to sustain a long career ... not LESS.
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Light exercise is good for a young horse. Running a 2 year old 10 times is not good.
At the 2 year old sales, they drill the horses as fast as they can go. The good sales are in February, March, and April. If you had ever been to a 2 year old sale, you would know that most of these horses do not come out of these sales very sound. Most of these horses' legs cannot take that kind of stress so early in the year. Horses certainly should not be running hard so early in their 2 year old year. If you guys had any practical experience in the real world at these sales, you would see that an extremely high percentage of these horses come out of these sales with fairly serious ailments. From my experience, I would estimate that with over 80% of these horses, the buyer is forced to give them a rest right after the sale because the horses already have problems.
You and Phalaris remind me of an accountant who looks at the books, but who has no knowledge or understanding about the business. You come to conclusions that are totally the opposite of what is going in reality. You totally misinterpret all the data that you are looking at. If you had any experience in the business, you would see how much different things are than from what you think.