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Originally Posted by foregoforever
Well, let's be honest. We're all dumb as hell. After several weeks of intense study and the national spotlight, we don't know a damned thing more than when we started. None of the track studies found anything wrong. If there have been any necropsy findings of note, I haven't seen them. We've had our attention diverted to lasix and drugs, which are worthwhile issues, just not pertinent to the SA problem. Information is being tightly controlled, and our best source, Balan, is off the case.
The only thing we've learned is that SoCal racing is ... let's be polite ... dysfunctional. And we knew that long ago.
There's a lot of smoke, but no one has found the fire. None of us should be feeling very intelligent at this point.
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Yes, SoCal has problems. This is a crisis, in my opinion, and they should not only be taking the steps they're taking but conducting research on other things, such as the breeding, the muscularity and bone density of the horses racing now as opposed to years ago, the way we race the horses now, with longer layoffs...is it really working? Are the horses lacking foundation?
In terms of the physicality of the horses, maybe I'm nuts but when I first started going to Aqueduct and the other NYRA tracks back around 1971, I could swear that there were a lot more horses with strong looking legs, and that now a lot of the horses have skinny legs.
