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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1803123" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Australian racing is geared very much to 2 yr old racing, we have some very big prizes for 2 yr olds as in the Golden Slipper and Magic Millions to name two so that the carrot is there for owners to recoup the enormous outlays at yearling sales. We have a lot of shorter races, 1200 to 1400 metre races as well. Our best known race the Melbourne Cup is over 3200 m with a lot of other medium to long distance races leading up to it. Over the years NZ trainers have regularly come over and knocked off these big races with horses that have been brought along a lot slower and not raced or lightly raced until the likes of 4 yr olds. Now a lot of overseas specialist distance horses are coming here to tackle the big ones.</p><p>I don't think racing as 2 yr olds contributes to injuries that necessitate euthanasia of the animal any more than leaving them until later. Racing them early does contribute to a lot of injuries that reduces or terminates their careers though. The other thing is you never get injuries in horses that aren't much good, they just don't try hard enough.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1803123, member: 16453"] Australian racing is geared very much to 2 yr old racing, we have some very big prizes for 2 yr olds as in the Golden Slipper and Magic Millions to name two so that the carrot is there for owners to recoup the enormous outlays at yearling sales. We have a lot of shorter races, 1200 to 1400 metre races as well. Our best known race the Melbourne Cup is over 3200 m with a lot of other medium to long distance races leading up to it. Over the years NZ trainers have regularly come over and knocked off these big races with horses that have been brought along a lot slower and not raced or lightly raced until the likes of 4 yr olds. Now a lot of overseas specialist distance horses are coming here to tackle the big ones. I don't think racing as 2 yr olds contributes to injuries that necessitate euthanasia of the animal any more than leaving them until later. Racing them early does contribute to a lot of injuries that reduces or terminates their careers though. The other thing is you never get injuries in horses that aren't much good, they just don't try hard enough. Ken [/QUOTE]
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