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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="uplandnut" data-source="post: 1805158" data-attributes="member: 24555"><p>Right or wrong I believe the issues that plague thoroughbred horses today are purely manmade. We breed for one thing only, speed. The rest of the horse is overlooked in the name of speed. When horses were wild the strong survived, sound, healthy animals. The almighty dollar has made more problems for these athletes than anything else. My assumption is the reason you see so many 2 and 3 year olds is the purses are substantially higher. I hate to say it but even though the organizations are trying to look out for the animals and doing damage control for the racing industry, some trainers and owners only care about the winning. There are horses that test positive for drugs quite a bit. You only hear about a small fraction of them, I highly doubt a horse goes and takes a needle to administer it's own cocaine fix. Personally the fines are to small for positive test results, that's why trainers keep dong it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uplandnut, post: 1805158, member: 24555"] Right or wrong I believe the issues that plague thoroughbred horses today are purely manmade. We breed for one thing only, speed. The rest of the horse is overlooked in the name of speed. When horses were wild the strong survived, sound, healthy animals. The almighty dollar has made more problems for these athletes than anything else. My assumption is the reason you see so many 2 and 3 year olds is the purses are substantially higher. I hate to say it but even though the organizations are trying to look out for the animals and doing damage control for the racing industry, some trainers and owners only care about the winning. There are horses that test positive for drugs quite a bit. You only hear about a small fraction of them, I highly doubt a horse goes and takes a needle to administer it's own cocaine fix. Personally the fines are to small for positive test results, that's why trainers keep dong it. [/QUOTE]
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