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[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Just out of curiosity, are the horses being used (including the ones who broke down) all very cheap claimers?

Nah, they probably use grade 1 winners for stuff like this.

They looked slower than Arabians in the footage last night.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Nah, they probably use grade 1 winners for stuff like this.

Thanks Hoss.

What I wanted to know was, maybe some of these horses were on vet's lists or just truly the bottom of the bottom. Would it be above some trainers to volunteer a horse that they knew was being kept together by glue? Knowing the horse could never win a race and was stuck in the barn because he/she would never get claimed. So offer it up to HBO and if something should happen, having HBO write a check.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Thanks Hoss.

What I wanted to know was, maybe some of these horses were on vet's lists or just truly the bottom of the bottom. Would it be above some trainers to volunteer a horse that they knew was being kept together by glue? Knowing the horse could never win a race and was stuck in the barn because he/she would never get claimed. So offer it up to HBO and if something should happen, having HBO write a check.

It's a fairly big Hollywood production. I would imagine they weren't just taking castoffs. I'm sure they vetted (for lack of a better term) the horses they were going to use.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Thanks Hoss.

What I wanted to know was, maybe some of these horses were on vet's lists or just truly the bottom of the bottom. Would it be above some trainers to volunteer a horse that they knew was being kept together by glue? Knowing the horse could never win a race and was stuck in the barn because he/she would never get claimed. So offer it up to HBO and if something should happen, having HBO write a check.

Out of curiosity, I went to the AHA website and looked at its list of regulations for equine performers and it's very extensive. Most equines in film and TV are supplied by companies specializing in that (there's a really cool documentary extra about the horses and stunt riders in the Lord of the Rings movies, by the way), but I don't know if, with such a large number of TB or TB-look-alikes, they got all of them via that route, or if they worked with individual owners. Anyway, some of the regulations include, no horse younger than 4, no medication, no tranquilizers, no whipping. So, unless the AHA vets are complete idiots, I find it hard to believe they'd okay injured claimers for racing sequences. Not to mention, the horses probably wouldn't be good-looking enough for the camera.

I think it was just unfortunate accidents.