"Do We Need a Sturdier Racehorse?"

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Round Pen

You absolutely hit the nail right on the head babies need to be babies. Just think about it from the time a horse is born till the time it makes its first start, there is a possibilty that horse could go through 3 or 4 sales. and when there in a sale they are in a stall sometimes weeks or even a couple of months prior to the sale. And that time spent in a stall could be spent romping around in a paddock and that is what builds bone when there young.

I dont think this is the majority of horses though. Disproportionally horses raised like this are the best bred ones which is hurting the top of the game which is the most visable obviously.

[Round Pen]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I dont think this is the majority of horses though. Disproportionally horses raised like this are the best bred ones which is hurting the top of the game which is the most visable obviously.

Respectfully disagree take the 1st book out of the Keeneland yearling sale and thats 4,000 take another 1000 in the OBS August sale then take 1200 in the OBS April Sale thats a whole lots of of middle of the road horses and bottom of the barrell types that get hot housed just like the top tier ones and that does not even begin to count all the fasig tipton sales like Oct yearling which had 1300 this year and all there 2 year old sales with the cream of the crop being in Miami.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Round Pen

Respectfully disagree take the 1st book out of the Keeneland yearling sale and thats 4,000 take another 1000 in the OBS August sale then take 1200 in the OBS April Sale thats a whole lots of of middle of the road horses and bottom of the barrell types that get hot housed just like the top tier ones and that does not even begin to count all the fasig tipton sales like Oct yearling which had 1300 this year and all there 2 year old sales with the cream of the crop being in Miami.

Why would you take the first book of keeneland out? Those are the most likely to be pampered. I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of OBS horses are hothoused.

There certainly arent 4000 keeneland horses or virtually any in the Oct sale taht are hothoused. The ones kept in the stall that sell in the Oct sale are just crippled.

And how do you hot house horses in training?