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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
It may be much worse than just losing the money. When a horse is forced to check like that, they often times come out of the race with injuries. I owned a filly once that was bottled up on the rail turning for home. The jock checked pretty good off heels but the rail did open up and he got through and won. That was the good news. The bad news was that she wrenched her ankle pretty bad and we had to put a blister on her and turn her out for a couple of months. Two months at the farm means no racing for 6 months. Luckily the horse came back off the 6 month layoff as good as ever, but a 6 month layoff costs a lot of money in terms of expenses.
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That's rough, very sorry to hear it.
I was going for the untheoretical, blatant result of the ride.