Santa Anita Injuries; Trainers meet, complain

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Originally Posted by Riot

1.
Who still buys yearlings with multiple vascular channels showing in their sesamoids on the prepurchase rads?

2.Does anyone keep a big growthy young colt at pasture with virtually no breaking or work at all until he's three? Do people feed that big growthy colt high protein to make him grow more quickly?

3.Anybody still use 6mm toe rims?

4.Do most give a horse starting with little bit of sore shins complete pasture rest for 60 days, or work him through it?



In some eyes they are damned if they do (release data) and damned if they don't (evil hiding of data).

IMO, the more info out there, the better.

The answer to number one is obvious

Number 2 is a bit strange. Why would anyone keep a horse in a paddock till they were 3? When has this ever been popular? And if they were big and growthy why would anyone want them to grow?

Number 3- They cant but the elimination of them has hardly kept horses sounder

number 4- People do both and both can work depending on the horse. people also scrape shins, pin fire and even freeze fire them. Some horses get shins and they go away. Some get them over and over again.