Looks like aluminum?
Posted on 06/23/2008 8:00:49 AM PDT by TexasNative2000
A photo taken during the early stages of the Belmont Stakes has revealed Big Brown was running with a loose shoe as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner attempted to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1979, Newsday reported Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
I wonder how often a shoe would be changed out on a racehorse. I would guess that they are being re-shod all the time - more often if there’s a hoof problem.
Winner!
...or one of his associates.
In other news: Kent Desormeaux spotted in mink coat driving a new Lamborghini
“I would guess that they are being re-shod all the time - more often if there’s a hoof problem.”
I wonder. If a horse has a propensity for quarter cracks, how often would they change shoes?
There’s an Earl Butz joke in here somewhere...
Agree.
If he has quarter cracks, he might have shelly feet. If he has shelly feet, 6-7 weeks between shoes (maybe).
Thanks again. Have to remember your name. :-)
They are often re-shod for the specific track conditions for a race.
Very interesting link.
So BB’s glue-ons were attached three weeks before the Derby. Then, two weeks to the Preakness, after which he developed a crack. Very interesting.
No, it makes NO sense as an excuse for his performance. Losing a shoe is not an uncommon event in a race and has little effect on a horse's performance. Unless the shoe hits somebody behind the horse, most of the time nobody, most of all the horse, knows it's missing until returning to the barn.
From the link you just posted, the owner knew of this loose shoe at latest on Saturday, June 8.
http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2008/06/big-browns-owner-says-loose-hind-shoe.html
For want of a nail ... a kingdom was lost.
Seems kinda like Tanya Hardings undoing in the Olympics was a loose shoe string on her skate, wonder what else Tanya and Bib Brown have in common
TB race horses wear aluminum racing plates. There are no steel or iron shoes for TB’s except some corrective-type custom-made shoe they would not be racing in. I don’t know what the glue-on’s are made of - too new for me to have ever seen them.
Yep...hugh an series
Looks like aluminum?
Ah - SO it’s not a surprise that it was loose.
That is what I thought also.
bttt
I guess not.
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