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Originally Posted by King Glorious
My take is that you are giving too much consideration to the word potential, treating it as if the high risks that at stake are GOING to happen and not potentially MAY happen.
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Well, I am basing my wording on my knowledge of how they appear to be parsing
their words carefully, reflective of the knowledge we have of EIPH.
We
know that 93-97% of horses that race have evidence of EIPH via tracheal wash. That is an indisputable, repeatedly-proven fact.
It's called "
Exercise-Induced" pulmonary hemorrhage because ... it's associated with exercise, with exertion, in all horses and all breeds. It's a horse thing. It's not a racing thing.
Thus, IMO, therefor, if we want to race them, we should help them do it in a manner reflective of the best medicine can offer to the health and welfare of these athletes. We do research into how to make their bones strong, so they don't break down, we do research into how to prevent damage to their lungs from EIPH - we need to
use our medical knowledge to help these animals we are responsible for.
We exercise, race and train young race horses in a manner PETA hates and fights against, because we
know it lengthens careers and decreases bone/fracture breakdown rates. We use lasix because we
know it decreases both the incidence and severity of EIPH.