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![]() The question is, are tracks responsible for having a vet (paid by the track) on the premises for on-track emergencies during training and racing hours, or not (just during racing hours here)?
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![]() If he was covered there would be no story. Isn't that kind of obvious? Do you think this is the first horse to ever breakdown on a Sunday morning at Penn National? He wasn't covered because had he been he wouldn't have to have been contacted, the vet covering for him would have already been there
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In that case, maybe the trainer should make sure there's a vet on the track before he takes a horse out?
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Do you not agree that the attending/regular vet has a responsibility to see that his horses are cared for when he/she isn't not there? |
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Do you not think the trainer had a responsibility to his horse, to ensure a vet was around if needed?
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yeah he euthanized the horse an hour after the horse was initally injured. Are you not lucid enough to understand that if the vet had someone oncall, AT THE TRACK, we wouldn't be talking about this story because it wouldn't have been one? Are you seriously going to blame the trainer for the vet's ineptness in not having anyone covering for him at 7:30am during training hours? |
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LOL
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I'll put you in the, "No, tracks are not responsible for having a vet on the premises during training hours" category, I guess. Even though they are required to have a horse ambulance readily available. Weird.
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So the track should pay a vet to do virtually nothing on the odd chance that the practicing vet and every other private vet happens to be busy at that very moment that a horse breaks down? |
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Again, the question is, should a track have a horse ambulance and vet available on-track during training hours or not? I guess Chuck says no. I would say yes.
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Okay. So again: what hours do you say a private practice has a responsibility to physically be on the track premises?
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![]() I guess that line can be applied to the ambulance too
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![]() It applied to me for the 10 years I was a paramedic. Strangely, nobody complained about paying me to "wait around" for their accident or heart attack.
If tracks agree they need a vet and a horse ambulance available during racing, they should consider doing the same during training hours.
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![]() No the ambulance is there to transport injured horses off the track. It is not manned until it is used. There are no private horse ambulance companies so the track provides this service.
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![]() Maybe tracks could work with the on-track vets to ensure training hours are always covered by some private physically being on the track.
I can't see them forcing any vet to have to work a particular day, of course, but the vets would most likely be willing to agree cover to prevent this type of nasty disaster happening again. If not, yeah, the track should consider pay a stipend for arranging to have a vet on premises "on call" for on-track emergencies during training hours.
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