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Old 07-21-2013, 02:34 PM
Merlinsky Merlinsky is offline
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat View Post
Jesus this is sad.

Monzante, who won the Eddie Read back in 2008, today at Evangeline Downs (running for a 4k tag).

Poor guy.

http://www.equibase.com/static/chart...072013USA4.pdf
Have you looked at his record on Equibase? He has 2 layoffs of over a year, then this race was coming back off an 8 month layoff. It's people like this that give the sport a bad name. He clearly had soundness issues and had no chance of being out of the bottom of the claiming barrel after being in G1s. I'm betting his sudden form drop and layoff was some injury he's been dealing with for years now. He was a 9 year old. It'd be one thing if he was a hard knocking campaigner who has no reason to stop because he's only ever had the same problems as any long-running horse. This didn't have to happen. I get that claiming races exist for a reason, but there was no way this particular horse was anything other than a ticking time bomb.
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