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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="sunnyblueskies" data-source="post: 1803213" data-attributes="member: 39112"><p>I don't think you can compare breeding young and racing young. </p><p>Racing young is a man made pressure put on the animal at the choice of age of the human. Don't see any race horses trucking themselves to the race course, putting themselves in the starting chute and race.</p><p>The fact of when a heifer is ready to be bred isn't really under human control I find, because if you were to leave your herd all together, cows and heifers, they would be bred whenever they would start to cycle, whatever age that may be. </p><p>All we control is when we expose them and who we keep to be exposed to make life simply easier for us (less first calf'er problems) or more profitable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sunnyblueskies, post: 1803213, member: 39112"] I don't think you can compare breeding young and racing young. Racing young is a man made pressure put on the animal at the choice of age of the human. Don't see any race horses trucking themselves to the race course, putting themselves in the starting chute and race. The fact of when a heifer is ready to be bred isn't really under human control I find, because if you were to leave your herd all together, cows and heifers, they would be bred whenever they would start to cycle, whatever age that may be. All we control is when we expose them and who we keep to be exposed to make life simply easier for us (less first calf'er problems) or more profitable. [/QUOTE]
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