🚀 go-pugleaf

I know about Prince of Thieves, Maria's Mon and I was there when
Featherbox was put down at Saratoga.I'm a breeder and a neophyte trainer,
so please take what I say with a grain of salt.

People out west are brutal, Euro and Native alike... they have been and
will be.(sorry for the political incorrectness of this statement) Their
livelihoods in some distant past depended on a rigorous testing of their
stock and therefore I have nothing to say.  In the east the brutality is
something masked by steroids and bute then shoved under the rug under the
guise of 'humane' treatment.   From little Peanut Budda, Pappa Bamm,  to
Prairie Bayou to Union City to Prince of Thieves to Unbridled Song to
Sonic Flyer to Feather Box to Maria's Mon to every other horse like
Ruffian and Go For Wand who broke down on the dirt track, I have only vet
reports:  the hard surface of running on dirt will break a horse down
faster than anything else (most of them had fractured sesamoids...a dirt
track hazard)  In Europe, they race on turf, why not in this country?  Why
do steeplechase horses stay sound into the last half of their first decade
while TB's break down at age three or four?  And what about the
quarter-horses that fill canada's slaughtermills?

I would like to have an obituary column where all horse deaths could be
reported and respectfully commemorated.  I'm not saying our sport is any
worse than high school football...lots of kids die...lets figure out why
and go from there.  Currently, I have two 2 /y/o's and NO one but me will
ever touch them, and no one but me will ever make the decisions regarding
them...I don't want them breaking down, endangering their lives or the
life of some jock.

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Morgana