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Originally Posted by clicknow
Veterinary science and medicine have made huge strides since the days of Cigar 25 years ago.
Just a heads up.  |
You either give too much credit to the field of medical research in the last quarter century...or more likely...not enough to its practitioners prior to the end of the millennium.
Firing horses--an archaic practice--has long been contested as a necessary or even effective "therapy" well before Cigar came on the scene. Simply put, it's a crude and brutal procedure that really doesn't have the scientific validation to back it up.
But putting the welfare issue aside for the moment, the point I was making in the "Cigar" post was that the use of firing was and is common if not routine in the history of Thoroughbred racing.
Therefore the fact that a racehorse in 2018 had undergone the procedure should not have been portrayed as some shocking "development" used as grounds for an ill-conceived social media tirade, merely because it was trained by current board whipping post Bob Baffert...
