Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JHP who wrote (228633)	3/17/2003 5:03:51 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 436258

Very possibly a factor, though it's been around for a long time and the injuries seem to be fairly new. I personally blame the big purses for 2 years olds and hard tracks. The big purses for the junior high school equivalent of horses has convinced trainers to run them their 2 year old year seasons instead of holding them back until they're more mature. By the time they are in their Derby 3rd year, they are not fresh kids on the block, but pretty hard banging veterans. Kind of like youngsters in the NBA. Many of the tracks are very hard nowadays. Why? Because the hard tracks produce faster speeds and speed factors for those who follow Andy Beyer or the Sheets. People like to watch the fastest tracks. For a while there, Gulfstream was a one-track veterinarian job security guarantor. Our own track, Sam Houston, has many things I would like to see corrected. But it is generally rated as the safest in the country for horses to run on. True, the speed factors suck, but who cares? Another problem may be so many top horses being bred outside the country. I don't know why, but the injuries seem related in some way to other countries buying up some of our best breeding stock.