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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The injuries and vulnerability between American thoroughbreds and European thoroughbreds is  largely due to the training programs. Uk horses regularly train on uneven terrain, hack out on trails and don’t usually stable at the track so they can enjoy turnout and “play” that helps strengthen bone and tendon. There are us trainers who follow this model but few big time trainers- mostly steeplechasers and turf trainers. If the us was to adopt this widely you would see far fewer fatal injuries in horses.[/quote]

This is a fact.

The breakdowns at Santa Anita have nothing to do with Churchill Downs.

I have been to the Derby, and I have been an exercise rider for some topnotch trainers. What they show on TV gives one a bizarrely skewed view of the Derby, as I discovered the first time I went there.

Also, despite having been to the Derby, having been involved peripherally in racing, and having grown up watching an analyzing the Triple Crown with my jockey grandfather, I am very liberal and not 100% White.[/quote]

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