Dedumbeaux's Ride

Rupert Pupkin · #11 06-08-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

so only valuable horses should be pulled up? all i'm saying is if its good for the horse then why not do it all the time?

I just watched the 10th at Monmouth and 3 horses finished slowly between 20 to 35 lengths behind the winner. i'm sure those horses might have some issues as well.

I have listened to all this quarter crack stuff and I hear many say that what he had is common. i don't know really, it didn't look good to me the photo that was shown in DRF. you listen to the trainer say it was not an issue, you saw he had a decent work. its all guesswork really though.

There are some quarter cracks that are a big deal and others that aren't. It depends on the severity and the location. From all the experts that I talked to who saw the picture of this quarter crack, they said that this was a really bad quarter crack. They said that it was in a bad spot and it was very likely to bother the horse in the race. It's not an exact science and you never know for sure, but there was a very good chance that the quarter crack would bother the horse.

If the connections were going to run the horse, they had to downplay the injury. If they admitted that the quarter crack was bad and that it might bother him, then everyone would have said, "Why are you running the horse if he has a bad quarter crack?!"

So they really had to downplay it. Don't get me wrong, I think that Dutrow honestly believed that it wouldn't be a problem. I think that he thought that the horse was so much the best, that even if the quarter crack did bother the horse and he regressed by 5 lengths, that the horse would still win.

The problem is that you just don't know how much it will bother the horse. Another horse with a quarter crack that looks identical, may have only regressed by a few lengths. You just don't know for sure. It's not an exact science with these types of things.

I can tell you one thing though. Practically every trainer I talked to a few days before the race said that there was no way that they would run that horse if it was their horse.