Majesticperfection - condylar fracture

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Desormeaux's horse had a heart attack for what it's worth.

NT

I'm not really sure if that proves my point more or less ... but this whole idea that dirt tracks are so much safer when they're slower just looks like pure nonsense to me. If anything, you actually seem to see more of that stuff when it's slow than you do when cheap horses are flying around the track like nothing.

I can understand trainers wanting it like that for morning workouts - the horses loaf through workouts with no pressure and pick it up at the end. To win races on dirt though, you have to run very hard the whole way a lot of times - and horses decelerate sharply at the end of races. It seems like these slow tracks only make things a little tougher on them - and you have all these people who believe they actually help horses stay sound somehow.