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Old 11-28-2011, 08:42 PM
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No, the one about whom I might ask your question, if I was to ask it, would be the dazzlingly brilliant Ruffian. But even in her case, I understand that they had to try.
Ruffian most likely could have been saved today, and would have a long, happy life as a broodmare. It was her anesthetic recovery, not her fracture repair, that was causative of her death.
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