Sudden Deaths in Southern Cal

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Understand that the '24 horses a week dying at America's racetracks' is a wholly phony number the Times manufactured with the mythic 'study' of result charts.

Yes I am aware that the fig is KAKA but there is a real fig and it does contain dead horses. Moreover I believe we should accept that horses die from training for and competing in horse races. What no one should accept or excuse is the abuse of horses. Simply not OK.. The fact that some will die while being given the finest of care and treatment is brutally acceptable.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Yes I am aware that the fig is KAKA but there is a real fig and it does contain dead horses. Moreover I believe we should accept that horses die from training for and competing in horse races. What no one should accept or excuse is the abuse of horses. Simply not OK.. The fact that some will die while being given the finest of care and treatment is brutally acceptable.

Absolutely. Well put Fred.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Yes I am aware that the fig is KAKA but there is a real fig and it does contain dead horses. Moreover I believe we should accept that horses die from training for and competing in horse races. What no one should accept or excuse is the abuse of horses. Simply not OK.. The fact that some will die while being given the finest of care and treatment is brutally acceptable.

you're exactly right. it's not always pretty, that's for sure. but it's the truth.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Yes I am aware that the fig is KAKA but there is a real fig and it does contain dead horses. Moreover I believe we should accept that horses die from training for and competing in horse races. What no one should accept or excuse is the abuse of horses. Simply not OK.. The fact that some will die while being given the finest of care and treatment is brutally acceptable.

Originally Posted by Kasept

Absolutely. Well put Fred.

Originally Posted by Danzig

you're exactly right. it's not always pretty, that's for sure. but it's the truth.

At the same time, there's a very disconcerting element to this particular situation.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Kasept

At the same time, there's a very disconcerting element to this particular situation.

yes, there is. i just finished reading the times article. to have so many in one area, and so many from one trainer to boot, is very strange. of course it's going to raise a lot of eyebrows. hopefully they can get answers. and if someone(s) is doing something wrong, i hope they are never able to do such a thing again.

why would blood thinning be something you'd want? is it a way to mask something else? would that affect metabolism levels?