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05-07-2008, 07:45 PM
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The fatality rate in TB racing is two-tenths of one percent. That's 0.002
The reason some injuries are fatal is because of the obvious - horses are designed to walk 18 hours a day, not stand still for hours, not lay down for hours. How impotent-feeling and frustrating is that, to have to euthanize a horse for something repairable in many other species? An Olympic skier who dislocates an ankle and has a spiral fracture of the other leg on the downhill, doesn't have to be dead. People both in and out of the sport seem to fail to understand this.
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