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Old 04-15-2011, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Thunder Gulch View Post
If the secret surgery is indeed true, it brings the conversation back full circle to where we were in November comparing Mo to Arazi. If I recall, Arazi missed quite a bit of training after the BC because of some bone chips, and he was never the same.
Yeah, but "bone chips" can be significant, or can be minor, or in between.
Plenty of horses have had surgery to remove chips, most often it's never mentioned to the public, most often the horses are fine.
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