Jose Santos retired today

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Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Someone explain horse physiology or recovery to me in more detail. I have never understood this argument. The horse expanded energy in the Preakness regardless. So if Santos wraps up in mid stretch, that makes all the difference in the world in a race 3 weeks later?? I can't understand that. If I run a hard mile or jog an easy mile...24 hours later I feel exactly the same. I don't see how a half second slower when running that hard and fast makes one hill of beans difference in a race 3 weeks later or 5 weeks later whatever the case may be. If he were running a race 1 hour later I can see it...but to me several weeks seems to me like ample recovery time that those couple tenths of a second slower would make no difference whatsoever in his next race.

Jose kept beating the horse when he was already giving all he had and leading by 2 lenghts. I must assume that you have never seen the whelts on a horse after a race and if you were beat endlessly for giving all you had would you still give it a maximum effort the next time? Why beat the horse when going to win and he is not stopping? Watch the Funnycide's Preakness win and judge it for yourself.