Backstretch people and exp horseplayers - "VET SCRATCH"

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by chucklestheclown

I never thought a vet scratch meant "lameness": I thought it meant the horse wasnt fit to run for whatever reason. Maybe they should have to designate-lame;lungs;colic-whatever.

When a horse is a vet's scratch, the horse will go on the "vet's list". The vet's list will in fact denote why the horse is on the vet's list. It may say "unsound", "sick", "lame", "injured", etc.

In the case of the horse Bobby asked about, I have no idea when the horse was scratched. Was he scratched in the post parade? Was he scratched in the paddock? Was he scratched the morning of the race?