Something wrong with Overdriven.. already

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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

If it wasn't for me, how else would we be audience to such a masterful display of back-pedaling? Any faster in reverse and something might have blown apart.

Physiologically, that is...

Excuse me? Your failure to be able to understand anything beyond the utterly simplistic, "all horses break down" isn't backpedaling on my part.

Here, for those other posters that would like to actually learn something about horses and the different types of injury they can get, and why "the good ones" so often seem to get injured:

I pointed out the well-known bone physiologic truth, " ... the fast horses - especially young ones - are more prone to have injuries caused by their speed (which involves lever strength, bone maturity, etc) blowing through physiologic limitations (stress fracture origins, muscle tears, strain/sprain, etc)."

Overdriven has exactly this type of "young, fast" horse injury: "Overdriven, winner of the Grade 3 Sanford, will not race again this year due to bone re-modeling, according to trainer Todd Pletcher. 'Basically, he has some changes to his cannon bones that were signs of immaturity,' Pletcher said. 'No fractures, no surgery necessary, we just decided we’d give him some time off and focus on Gulfstream.' "