[Honu]

Most trainers at cheap tracks dont have the money or the means to find out what is bothering a horse as far as X rays and nukes scans and such. Most cheap tracks dont have a vet clinic where you can take the horses and have them properly x rayed , as at most cheap tracks they do it in the shed with a hand held x ray device. Most time owners dont wanna have a bill for blocking a horse out then x raying them and then treating them for the problem , so what to do ? I have ridden horses that were blocked for races because it was cheaper for the trainer to do that than charge the owner for alot of other stuff. Sad as it may be that is the way it is, at cheap tracks people do what is they have to to get results , is it right ? I dont know, I know that the horses I work with now, the owners have alot of money and if they didnt care about the well being of their horses they wouldnt be in our barn , I am lucky. Still the point is should the jock get paid if the trainer does something and gets a bad test? I believe the answer is yes the jock has fullfilled their end of the obligation , the trainer did not .