Comeback Horses!

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

If you took away the drugs and trained them hard, there would be no horses left. It's hard enough to keep them sound when you baby them.

I'll give you an analogy. Let's say that you have a really sore knee and you need to compete in a big tennis match this Sunday. The smart thing for you to do would be to take it easy between now and Sunday. It wouldn't be good advice for me to tell you to go and train really hard all week on your bad knee. If you trained hard all week, you probably wouldn't even be able to play this weekend.

You have the same situation with most horses in training right now. Most of them have leg problems and if you work them really hard, you will break them down in a hurry.

we just don't want to see drugs used to the extent that all pain is eliminated and the horse is then running with an injury. if no drugs were allowed to ease pain, then we would know if the horse was really healthy or not by observing the walk.