NY Task Force on Racehorse Health & Safety Report, Reccos

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Originally Posted by Riot

When you look for a EIPH using a testing methodology (1 scope post-work or race within 2 hours) that has been proven to miss an accurate diagnosis 80% of the time, people tend to hold the factually false opinion on morbidity rate that you do.

If you don't look for it, you don't find it.

Virtually all TB race horses suffer EIPH. Every single incidence of EIPH, no matter how minor, or detected grossly or not, damages lung tissue.

And therein lies the rub. Horses raced for a century with all this apparent lung damage and were a much sturdier group of animals by far.