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Old 05-21-2014, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by luvalab View Post

One of the things that has been offered by Colonial is to run, but not open the backstretch. Which would mean horses would have to ship in to run. Let's assume Colonial runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A trainer has a horse running in a race on each of those days. Does that mean he would have to ship each horse in on each day? If so, that seems like a headache for the trainers.
That would be a nightmare. It is a 2 lane highway after the 95 merge that is backed up for beach traffic.

I remember overhearing a very small time trainer making a call to someone saying how they got stuck in traffic for 90 minutes and made it 5 minutes prior to the deadline for the horses lasix. It was 90 degrees that day and high humidity. That, to me, is animal cruelty.
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