My Prediction for Santa Anita

Originally Posted by Danzig

not necessarily.
they caution you about feeding hay from the ground, especially if you have particularly sandy soil, as a horse can injest a fair amount of sand over time and develop sand colic.
i also read about a horse who was a cribber-they had used belts as fencing material, and the horse damn near died. they removed an almost soccer-ball sized ball of rubber from his gut-it didn't pass thru, but kept getting larger the more he nibbled.

Watch when a horse eats.
They grab with the big rubbery lips
and they pull. Sometimes just grass tears off.
But some of the time some of the grass with roots
also comes up. All kinds of crud hang on the roots.

Horses take in all sorts of crud.
And they colic more often when supplemented
with the very high calorie stuff, too much grain and
sweet crap.