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Originally Posted by dilanesp
The point is there can't be two standards for what constitutes whether it is safe to run a horse.
If it is actually unsafe to continue to run Justify, it is also unsafe to continue to run any claimer with the same "injury", because each of those horses' lives is just as valuable and entitled to protection as Justify's.
If it is not unsafe to run a claimer after Justify's injury, then Justify was retired for illegitimate reasons and his owners should be punished in any manner available.
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You should spend some time on the backstretch and see how many horses are running injury or ailment free. Not very many of them. If racing were done using your standard it would cease to exist in a month.
