“Even though the investigations and expert reports have indicated no surface issues
Then, what IS the cause of now TWELVE horses dying?
Feed? $hots??
Some of those horses I recall being heart attacks. Those should not count at all.
Definitely it was so here at Laurel.
Of course, some blame the horses themselves…breeding for weakness.
I however don’t fully buy that, seeing as American horses are heavy in the genetics of much-vaunted European racers, and often were the top Euro horses themselves.
I think it’s more lack of conditioning, treating them like babies and reducing schedules, then when they do - pop. The soft leftist PETA mindset of don’t make the animal do anything leads to more easy injury, I think. Compare horses 100 years ago to today…look at the schedules. Weak compared to back then.
Could be any number of things, could be several different things. One needs to remember, these horses are trained to work at absolute maximum. Occasionally, a trainer goes beyond that absolute and the horse dies.
Maybe a disease lurking in the structure, like staph in old hospital buildings.
Shortage of horse paste from all the anti-vaxxers using it.
The horses are now carrying StrideSafe cell devices, which emit radio frequencies. Radiation.