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Old 08-17-2006, 12:06 PM
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“Something like this is very rare,” the New Jersey-based veterinarian Dr. Allan Wise said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case of lymphoma in a horse that age. Usually, it would involve an older horse, like an old broodmare. I never heard of it in a fairly young, athletic horse. There are some theories that a horse can get this when something goes wrong with the immune system, but we don’t know what or why. That’s why it is usually the very old that get this; their immune systems are too old.”
That mostly answers the question I had about the rareness of cancer in thoroughbreds ... and the unusual nature of it striking such a young horse.
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Old 08-17-2006, 12:12 PM
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Don't they do routine bloodwork on good racehorses? You would think that something like this would have came up when they got the results back, no?
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Old 08-17-2006, 12:39 PM
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Don't they do routine bloodwork on good racehorses? You would think that something like this would have came up when they got the results back, no?
Good question, Tom.

Either way, I'm with Rupert on this... there were a TON of people trashing this colt last month and now it turns out he had a legitimate reason for running so poorly. I hope they caught this in time.
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Old 08-17-2006, 03:13 PM
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Don't they do routine bloodwork on good racehorses? You would think that something like this would have came up when they got the results back, no?
My cat had OK blood results and 1.5 weeks later they opened him up to find his stomach had almost no normal tissue left due to lymphoma. Blood tests are not always correct.
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