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Originally Posted by Spalding No!
Not that it negates the overarching debate, but there is a significant confounder regarding Imprimis bleeding out the nose yesterday.
He broke through the gate prior to the start, the trauma of which could easily have caused him to bleed out of his nostrils.
Looks like the linked video was taken just after the race so at that point it wasn't confirmed that he bled from his lungs (maybe they did subsequently and my post is moot).
Orseno in previous interviews stated the horse wasn't a bad bleeder (he won off-Lasix in a turf stakes earlier this year) and ran the horse in Europe a couple of years ago as well.
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Watching the race, this makes way more sense than the horse bled from EIPH so bad it poured out of the nostrils. He lost in the last jump while running a big number. I'm not buying it was a lack of Lasix.
