Question for the trainers/owners-

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Riot

"Blood work" often means simply a complete blood count (CBC), and you look primarily for normal red cell count indices (no anemia), and a normal white cell counts (no infection or immunosupression). It's pretty routine.

If you wait for things to "show" (become clinically evident) you've waited far too long, when you could have caught it early with blood work. Same applies to you.

Thanks- I've read many quotes after races where owners and trainers talk about seeing how the horse is doing, eating, etc., but this was the first one that specifically mentioned blood work, so I thought I'd ask. That makes sense.