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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1803161" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I fully agree that [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] has a breed, and the management, to get calves on the ground at 2 and for them to be exceptional animals... Testament to the fact that they have put years into developing their "line" of simmentals and the their management has developed these animals to do what she wants and how she wants it. I am not saying that 2 yr olds can't or shouldn't be calving... just that for some it doesn't work as well... and some breeds are slower maturing...</p><p>That said, being bred and calving as a 2 yr old, is WAY DIFFERENT than taking a YOUNG horse and putting it under the stress on the bones, legs, ligaments, muscles , tendons, and everything else while they are still developing, to run like the wind with a weight upon their back... That is more physical demands than I think nature designed a horse to handle at that young of an age..... but then, I don't have TB's.... I have had some QH and Apps, and crossbreds over the years, and my one filly I did some riding when she was nearly 2 but it was light and not hard pounding riding.... but by the time she was 3, I was riding her daily..... she still had a sway back as an old mare though.... but she never had the leg or foot problems or lameness.... that so many get from the hard use as a youngster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1803161, member: 25884"] I fully agree that [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] has a breed, and the management, to get calves on the ground at 2 and for them to be exceptional animals... Testament to the fact that they have put years into developing their "line" of simmentals and the their management has developed these animals to do what she wants and how she wants it. I am not saying that 2 yr olds can't or shouldn't be calving... just that for some it doesn't work as well... and some breeds are slower maturing... That said, being bred and calving as a 2 yr old, is WAY DIFFERENT than taking a YOUNG horse and putting it under the stress on the bones, legs, ligaments, muscles , tendons, and everything else while they are still developing, to run like the wind with a weight upon their back... That is more physical demands than I think nature designed a horse to handle at that young of an age..... but then, I don't have TB's.... I have had some QH and Apps, and crossbreds over the years, and my one filly I did some riding when she was nearly 2 but it was light and not hard pounding riding.... but by the time she was 3, I was riding her daily..... she still had a sway back as an old mare though.... but she never had the leg or foot problems or lameness.... that so many get from the hard use as a youngster. [/QUOTE]
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