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Originally Posted by slewis
Dan,
As I posted earlier.. tonight I will be posting a portion of my study dating back to 2001 which consists of EVERY dirt starter at a NYRA track (over 109,000) in which I personally observed (over 99%) and recorded in a database (I record bit, blinker type, tongue tie and shoe type info on each horse).
You, and others will see how their is NO additional risk and how mud calks are statistically safer (less breakdowns) then plain shod horses.
As far as your cadillac williams ex., why not look at the millions of turns and additional traction baseball players and football players have (which is why they ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL wear them)
Imagine a baseball player rounding third hard and heading for home, when he makes that turn and plants his right foot, without cleats (same as calks) that foot gives way... torn groin, ham string, knee.
This is the same principle I've discussed with trainers like McLaughlin, who personally asked me about them when he started training again.
When an athlete, any athlete, puts it's foot (or hoof ) down, they want ONLY vertical movement (and just a little of that) and NO HORIZONTAL movement. When you start moving horizontally (sliding), thats when the athlete (including the horse) risks injury.
I will also be explaining the REAL reason why they have implemented this change, which is strictly a political move.
Oh, by the way... a 5 yr study conducted on steeplechase races in Saratoga shows that 4.5% of starters get VANNED OFF. You dont van a horse off unless he's hurt. 4.5%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's 4.5% vs about 0.4% for flat racing.
Think the "Concerned and caring Jockey Club" will ban steeplechase racing and threaten to "take graded status" from any track that conducts it??
These guys are an extension of the clowns we have in Washington... making and adjusting the rules for their own personal gains.
Tonight I'll tell all!
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Not trying to be a wise ass here, but in your study did you walk back to the barns of each individual horse after each race and inspect their legs? Looking at the legs from the grand stand doesn't count.
Did you seek out information from each trainer about how each horse came back to the barn after each race? A lot of horses show signs of lameness while cooling out back at the barn.
Did you, in your study, follow up on each horse to see how well they came out of each race and how soon did they run back? Time off in between races usually can be due to some type of injury.
Can you reveal to us on how you conducted this study? Did you have trainers actually participating and being cooperative in this study? Most of the information you need to conduct this study would undoubtedly have to come from the trainers mouth. Are you telling us that in this study, each and every trainer of each and every horse gave you information on how their horse came out of each and every race?
Also, how were you able to verify how each horses injury did or did not be caused by the shoes they were wearing?
