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Originally Posted by cj
The owner and trainer were put in a no win situation. If absolutely anything happened to the horse if he ran again, they would never hear the end of it. The horse was basically retired for them by the vets at the BC.
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The thing I'm thinking is - he wasn't a vet scratch, he was a trainer scratch IN ANTICIPATION of a pre-race vet exam scratch, accompanied by saying that's why they scratched. It seems like they could have made the same scratch at the same time, given a different reason, and no one's the wiser, and they bring him back next year if that's what they want to do.
Based on the way it did go down, it looks like they may have been planning for the BC to be his last race, and when they saw this coming, it was just a way to still retire him, say he's fine, and throw more shade at the vets doing pre-race exams (following the Dolce Zel scratch a few days earlier) - though I think the BC vet makeup differs from just being KY regulatory vets.