It should make sense. When you buy a used car, don't you care about the mileage?

Yes, I would care about a car's mileage. But then cars, unlike humans and horses, can't make themselves stronger with exercise.

--Dunbar

Can humans and horses over do it?

I know my old 76 Caprice Classic absolutely thrived on hay, oats and water.

I made the Mine that Bird - Animal Kingdom comparison with a couple friends recently. Their respective runs in the Triple Crown races are strikingly similar. That being said, I have to think Animal Kingdom is a more talented animal than Mine that Bird and is going to go on to win some nice races somewhere provided he stays healthy.

Then again, maybe he's the third Derby winner in a row to make the Derby his last career win?

Can someone tell Joe Drape about this? He will be so sad to find out a non-steroided up, relatively slow, foreign influenced bred horse like AK can actually be injured.

This never would have happened if Lasix were banned....

You are absolutely right here.

Am I disillusioned. I thought Drape was a respectable "journalist" who liked TB racing SPORT. He did expose the Paragallo debacle, so he gets a star there. But he has turned out to be a misinformed, arrogant jerk.

He is an empty suit. He doesn't understand the basics of this sport as it pertains to PROFESSIONAL athletes, who in this case are race horses. What an @ss.

He doesn't understand the economics of the sport either. He was pontificating on WFAN to Mike Francesca that "racing should close down in the winter" specifically alluding to NY. What a jerk.

Francesca had the NYRA CEO Hayward on after Drape and Hayward blew that drone Drape's bs opinions away. He simply explained in ECONOMIC terms that the horses, trainers, owners at AQU are completely different than the same at Belmont or Sar. Think of AQU as a "different track". These owners.trainers race at the AQ meet. That is when they make money winning races. DUH!

My recollection of this is that the blow he suffered caused part of the cannon bone to become necrotic, much the same sort of bone injury as Bo Jackson suffered to his hip. It would have broken had he kept racing.