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do you speak from knowledge or just speculation? Many that have knowledge (and common sense) know this is was no usual incident.

An American Mother is a very experienced horsewoman who owns a Thoroughbred mare herself. I am a former professional horsewoman who has experience with racehorses, managed a training facility for racehorses, and now enjoys retraining retired racehorses for hunting or dressage as a pleasure rather than a profession. I too own a Thoroughbred mare, hence the screen name OTTBMare. We are speaking from knowledge, not speculation. How about you? What are you credentials, and what international-caliber trainers did you study with?

"Many that [sic] have knowledge and common sense" know that breakdowns like this happen far more often than the general public is aware. The public only hears about it when it happens in a Triple Crown race.

I think you're on target. The horse if I understand right was in the cool down run when this happened. The cool down is required because even a country boy will tell ya you don't run a horse hard then just stop. The after finish run is to get their heart slowed back down at a steady pace rather than sudden stop. The horse may have had weak ankles or even a heart attack as first thought and fell.

You push any animal, human, or machine to their extremes and the odds say a certain percentage will fail. That's just life. Obviously a Second Place finish horse is worth far more alive than dead so I'd rule out insurance right off the bat. The death was a monetary loss of future earnings.

Just a bad day for the horse, owner, jockey, handlers, and trainer. It could have happened just as easy riding a common horse in an open field at full gallop. Such things as groundhog holes etc have taken many a horse down. Thankfully the Jockey or no one else was hurt.

BTW didn't Street Sense Jockey {last years winner} have a horse fall on him the year before?

OTTB,

Haven’t you realized true knowledge here is next to meaningless... its all about political ideological conclusions regardless of facts anymore. The persuit of the truth long ago died.