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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Horses got injured back in the day too.
If anything the causation may run the other way. Fewer starts lead to more injuries.
Claimers, where the economics are different, still run a lot.
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They're often running with injected joints too that absolutely can cripple them in their post-racing life.
I know what I've seen with the same type of stock, trained by the same stick of trainers, and the decline in being able to keep the horses running. And you're dead wrong if you think sitting in the barn or being at a layup farm is what we want.
The one area where you may be right is that racing may be taking care of their horses better than before so stop when they could chance a few more runs. I can't complain about that though. The blue bloods used to take poorly conformed foals to the woods at the back of the farm and shoot them. Culling can be both beneficial and brutal.
