in all honesty without a comprehensive list of breakdowns on tracks throughout the country the industry is just guessing. Back when I trained there was always talk about periods of high numbers of break downs at certain tracks and then it just went back to normal. Nobody really thought much about it at the time, it was just something that happens unfortunately. I would assume the state's vets at each track would have to have some records for the past twenty years. It would be very interesting if someone could dig this up for all the tracks and look at it before people start really going overboard on this whole thing. Today's social media really exposes every little detail and that wasn't the case before. So it's really hard to make a solid judgement on things like this. Just my thoughts on the matter.
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