Horse owners won't risk their investment
Sunday May 11, 2008
Wayne Masters uninformed rant (May 7) about the Kentucky Derby demands a reply.
To say that a 3-year-old Thoroughbred is not ready to race that distance is absurd. Organized racing has been in existence for hundreds of years, and 3-year-olds have been running these distances during that time with a microscopically small percentage of catastrophic breakdowns. Moreover, equine medicine has advanced to the degree that many lives that would once have been lost can now be saved.
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