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Originally Posted by castaway01
I don't care if I ever bet on another 2-year-old race, but this is factually incorrect. Two-year-old racing is not a new development, and 100 years ago 2-year-olds ran more than now, not less. It's not the cause of any of these problems; breeding and overmedicating unsound horses is.
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I just crunched the numbers for SA which I got here:
http://www.jockeyclub.com/pdfs/eid/SantaAnita.pdf
They reported 6038 2YrOld starts since 2009 , and four breakdowns. That's 0.66 per 1000 starts. Compare that with their overall rate which is well above 2.0.
One could calculate the 2YrOld rate for the other tracks, if you want to prove me wrong. You can do that here:
http://www.jockeyclub.com/default.as...vocacy&area=11
Click on the tracks with the asterisks.
