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Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan
I believe you're on the right track with Frosted........love his pedigree, I think he would have beaten Upstart 2 races back if he didn't have the throat problem as he was in 1st place rolling down the stretch & just hit a brick wall.......the trainer knew he had a problem & supposedly fixed it.
My only question is, why change the jockey?
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Sometimes horses overcoming throat surgery require a very gentle hand on the bit. Part of the reason for the flipping their palate is getting to keen. Understanding that the horse's gate and the breathing are linked.
This is a very informative and explains a lot about throat problems.
https://youtu.be/QsvS6gEBJuE?t=1943
It is graphic with regard to horse dissection but to understand the sheer mass of air moving through the animal you need to see the inside.
Personally had one horse that had this problem and before he was a cheap maiden. After- he won 5 races including allowance. We lost in a claimer after he was out of conditions.
http://www.pedigreequery.com/cinbuster
It is scary for any animal to have breathing trouble. Horses would learn to stop themselves when breathing is compromised and thus the fade in FLA. The faster the run before the flipping of palate, the faster to stop due to inability to intake air and the higher degree of O2 demand due to energy metabolism.
So in my mind Frosted, and looking at Frosted as a dragster, he got a new fuel injection which he was then given a new transmission to handle the extra horsepower. He then got a new driver that is very good at feathering the throttle and getting the best 1/4 mile run out of his charge.
Getting the horse to trust all these new parts and perform to the highest standard takes a crew chief that can put it all together for that one big run.