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Old 01-26-2010, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Thoroughbred Fan
No one ever said abuse the horses, but if you are so uninformed as to think more than 40% of the horses who go to the gate don't have something bothering them, you are joking. There is a lot of gray area when it comes to is the horse able to go or not. I would never abuse a hores, but you sometimes have to start one that is a little sore or you'd never enter a horse.
Horses are athletes. There are physical conditions, some acute, some chronic, that are managed, as in all athletes. And there are physical conditions that threaten further harm if the horse runs with them.

No, not really any grey areas at all.
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