Shake You Down

[Echo Farm]

I guess Shake You Down will be scratched again since he worked at Laurel on 2/23.

Two tracks act on herpes
By MATT HEGARTY
Charles Town Races in West Virginia and Penn National Racecourse in Pennsylvania on Friday put in place restrictions on horses shipping to and from their racetracks because of fears that horses in Virginia may have been exposed to equine herpesvirus, a highly contagious disease.

Penn National closed its backstretch to all horses shipping from tracks, farms, or training centers in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, and any horse who leaves the grounds to race in Maryland or West Virginia will not be allowed back "until further notice."

Charles Town adopted a prohibition on any horse entering its backstretch who had been in either Maryland or Virginia since Feb. 1.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/82804.html

[paisjpq]

In again for those interested...

Horse name Shake You Down
Notes
Activity type Entry
Activity date 03-15-2007
Track Charles Town
Surface Dirt
Distance 4 1/2 Furlongs
Race number 7
Purse $21,000
Claim price $7,500
Individual claim price $7,500
Race type Claiming
Post position 3
Jockey Acosta J D

[POINTGIVEN1985]

can he still run ? i bet him about 5 months ago at laurel he was 3-1 i put $50 on him he set the pace opened up i thought he was going to win then died finished 3rd i think

[Cajungator26]

I wish I had the money.

[saucon17]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

I wish I had the money.

This horse deserves a better life than what Cole
is doing to him. You would think Cole will get it
through his mind that Shake You Down has given
a lot to him and that he earnings has paid for a lot
of his other horses. Mr. Cole think about and do the
right thing for him. If he doesn't hopefully somebody
will step up and give this horse a better life

[phystech]

Care to share with me what you think a better life for him would be? And, please be sure to include the basis for your judgement other than the fact that he is 9 yrs old.

Thx

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by phystech

Care to share with me what you think a better life for him would be? And, please be sure to include the basis for your judgement other than the fact that he is 9 yrs old.

Thx

A better life:

[saucon17]

Originally Posted by phystech

Care to share with me what you think a better life for him would be? And, please be sure to include the basis for your judgement other than the fact that he is 9 yrs old.

Thx

This from a Bloodhorse Article

He has a quote about Shake You Down

He says "All I know is that he will always have home when he is done racing, that I can asuure you. I already have a home picked out for him at Tim Salzman farm in Carrol County. We're not going to run him any cheaper than $14,000, and obviously, we're not going to send him out there if we feel he can't win or if we feel his health is compromised. But we don't feel that way now"

They why would he say this bullshit. He made this statement and
not following it. I think doesn't care if this horse breaks down.
Some of us on DT think this should deserve much better. Shake You
Down should spend his days in a paddock being a horse