What Kind of Hit Will Racing Take If Barbaro Dies?

[sumitas]

I appreciate your wise post suffolk...horse racing is moving ahead to synthetics, thank God. there are always obstructionists with vested interests that are afraid of change so horse racing will eventually overcome those as well. in the mean time, these tragedies continue...but let's cash this ticket...well said friend.

[todko]

Originally Posted by sumitas

I appreciate your wise post suffolk...horse racing is moving ahead to synthetics, thank God. there are always obstructionists with vested interests that are afraid of change so horse racing will eventually overcome those as well. in the mean time, these tragedies continue...but let's cash this ticket...well said friend.

Nothing like cashing in at the grave site is there Sumitas? Exactly what you're doing.

Name the other horses who broke down at Pimilico that meet due to a poor surface. Go ahead. Let's hear it.

And it's still never been settled whether Barbaro was clipped from behind.

Got some poly to sell do you?

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Real ****ty of you to use Barbaro as an advertisement for synthetic tracks. Seems as though you are the one with vested interests. Change is great, I welcome change, but I just feel it's a little early to claim polytrack as the end all be all. Horses break down on it too, so it obviously has it's faults as well. Maybe a logical approach is that horses are going to break down, that's the grim truth. Maybe lets try and improve the breed, so as they aren't so fragile.

BINGO BINGO BINGO...

It's the people that INSIST upon breeding to unsound horses (and they pay quite the fee for it too) that are causing these kinds of problems. Thoroughbreds are more fragile than they used to be and IMO it's because they are inbred all to hell with generations of unsound, poorly conformed horses. It's no wonder...

It is an interesting thread, but I wouldn't go putting the horse in the ground yet. This one is a fighter.