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View Poll Results: A horse pooping in the post parade is a:
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10-12-2013, 07:18 PM
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I've read that dogs will only poop/pee if they feel confortable with their surroundings.
Aside from them both being animals, I don't know why I think that trait is the same for horses, but I do.
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10-12-2013, 07:31 PM
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I have always wondered about this topic and also about the other side of it. Do horses try to eat the grass on the turf course?
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I think with the ring or "bit" in their mouth, eating would be darn difficult.
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10-13-2013, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by jballscalls
I think with the ring or "bit" in their mouth, eating would be darn difficult.
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Also, most wear tongue ties.
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10-13-2013, 10:45 AM
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Best advice about pooping during the post parade: go before you go to the track. Racetrack restrooms aren't the cleanest.
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10-13-2013, 11:49 AM
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For guys that takes weight shifts literally enough to adjust their figures for 1 pound, I can't see why they wouldn't think a dump would win them the bob in a tight finish. 
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10-14-2013, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by jballscalls
I think with the ring or "bit" in their mouth, eating would be darn difficult.
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thx.
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Originally Posted by PICSIX
Also, most wear tongue ties.
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yes, I think I am one of those guys who would not know the tail from the nose.. 
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10-19-2013, 01:27 PM
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Wired Bryan crapped in the gate! 
Last edited by jk3521; 10-19-2013 at 01:29 PM.
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10-19-2013, 02:14 PM
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Best advice about pooping during the post parade: go before you go to the track. Racetrack restrooms aren't the cleanest.
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No lie there.
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05-17-2014, 03:58 AM
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Geoffrey Hutson's book 'Watching Racehorses provides the following stats
where the variable is 'Dumping'
Number of starters 636, number of winners 52
With bigger fields in Australia it equates to an Impact value 0.97
It also states that a racehorse will shift about 40lbs per day plus around 2 gallons of liquid
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05-17-2014, 08:37 AM
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Pooping in the post parade?
I try to stay on a morning routine myself. 
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05-17-2014, 09:30 AM
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Something that has been debated by horsemen and horseplayers for years is whether a horse pooping in the post parade is a positive or a negative indicator.
Some say the great Man o' War pooped heavily before the 1919 Sanford (reportedly as a result of eating Hattie's fried chicken) and then lost to Upset. Others point to Secretariat, who paused during the Belmont Stakes post parade and left a large deposit near the sixteenth pole. That pile was of course freeze dried and is now on display in the National Museum of Racing.
It's a topic that I haven't seen discussed in print since an article by Ray Taulbot in the August 1957 issue of American Turf Monthly, which advertised his short lived poop calculator, the predecessor to the pace calculator.
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I did that once and got thrown out.
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05-17-2014, 09:32 AM
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I've read that dogs will only poop/pee if they feel confortable with their surroundings.
Aside from them both being animals, I don't know why I think that trait is the same for horses, but I do.
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Maybe the "alpha" is marking his territory?
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05-17-2014, 11:23 AM
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57 people voted.........
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05-17-2014, 03:23 PM
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05-17-2014, 05:17 PM
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Whenever I'm asked about betting a horse that takes a dump before the race, I always reply, I prefer to bet a horse that gives a dump.
But, when I'm asked they don't use the term "dump."
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