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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
I had always assumed exactly that.
The reason I posted this was because I found the case made by Vosburgh to be very interesting.
I had always assumed the only benefits of gelding were to make horses more manageable and easier to train.
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Don't stallions start to fill out particularly in front? That'd put more weight on their forelegs and possibly increase risk of injury. If you've got a horse that might have soundness issues with those legs, might make sense to geld them to support a future racing career, esp. when you don't want to pass that conformation issue on to foals anyway. Even if there's not a conformation problem, if the horse is gonna be fairly big and his breeding isn't very commercial, you can just opt to have a racing career rather than risk having nothing at all.