So much for horses needing 4 to 5 weeks rest

[deltagulf]

Originally Posted by disappearingdan_akaplaya

believe me guys i wanna see the best horses race often too but it just cant happen the way some here appear to want it to! horses are living breathing beings just like us and after running a huge effort sometimes they need more time to recuperate! ive learned so much since working in the barn and ive saw this first hand and am actually able to tell alotta the time now just how much a race has taken outta 1 of our horses by visually observing. for example we had a horse come off a year break, well he ran his eyeballs out first time back at turfway and he was layed out afterwards and was fine physically in the sense with no injury but again was just flat out exhausted for awhile and it took him several more days than it normally would for a horse to return to the track after a race. also some here may not realize especially with these stake horses just how much the shipping takes outta the horse as well

well back they shipped and not by air but by train or truck. and they ran quite well back then. to me it is easlier to fly then travel by land.