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Old 08-22-2006, 06:48 PM
Rupert Pupkin Rupert Pupkin is offline
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Originally Posted by pba1817
You should push horses hard, anyone ever heard of the term, "healthy as a horse"??

The reason why we are getting so many breakdowns is because horsemen have gone way overboard in efforts to baby the horses, they are over Dependant on the drugs that are allowed as well. The only way to get back to good sound horses is take away the drugs, train them hard, and race them more frequently.. the breed will start to turn around only when this happens. If not, the breed will continue to go downhill.
If you took away the drugs and trained them hard, there would be no horses left. It's hard enough to keep them sound when you baby them.

I'll give you an analogy. Let's say that you have a really sore knee and you need to compete in a big tennis match this Sunday. The smart thing for you to do would be to take it easy between now and Sunday. It wouldn't be good advice for me to tell you to go and train really hard all week on your bad knee. If you trained hard all week, you probably wouldn't even be able to play this weekend.

You have the same situation with most horses in training right now. Most of them have leg problems and if you work them really hard, you will break them down in a hurry.
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