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Originally Posted by Appy
"These aren't cars, they are flesh and blood animals. That is the difference. Jacobson treats them like cars."
Exactly right CJ. But it isn't just Jacobson.
The "system"...
Would-be trainers are "trained" that to be successful in "the business" RULE #1 is "Never fall in love with your horse" because they are nothing more than business inventory. This advice is repeated in any number of publications designed to educate prospective horse racing trainers. To regard horses as "inventory" is, and has long been, the dominant modus operandi in the business of horse racing.
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It is a model that needs to change. It isn't acceptable in the real world in 2015. In racing, sure, because the sport is always 30 or 40 years behind.
