Which states allow the racing of nerved horses?

[Bast]

I thought all of them banned the racing of nerved horses, but apparently not.

[Lucy]

New York, or at least they could several years ago. I remember that there was a list of nerved horses posted in the Belmont racing office.

[Bast]

New York, or at least they could several years ago. I remember that there was a list of nerved horses posted in the Belmont racing office.

Yes. Tizway is nerved.

[Georgerz]

And now has two GRI wins in his resume. I wonder how much will affect his value as a stallion the fact that he is nerved.

[Patuxet]

Apparently Kentucky also allows nerved horses to race. This quoted from TDN:

"Tizway will make his next start in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Oct. 1--a race he was third in two years ago--before going for the GI Breeders Cup Classic at Churchill Nov. 5."

[BenB]

I just hope that he is not gooiing to collapse in a race, as the warning system is cut off.

Overhere starting is not allowed.

[Laurierace]

The only nerving that is allowed anywhere in the US is heel nerving. They can still feel their legs and most of their hoof.

[BenB]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... el-nerving.

Link seems not to work.

Laurierace is correct in her last post

[Jessi P]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... el-nerving

Try it without the period at the end.

[Bast]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/38297/owner-sues-mandella-and-hughes-over-heel-nerving

Try it without the period at the end.

I have a mouth full of root canal work, but I don't run on my teeth, either.

[majxmom]

I am the current (and last) owner of Refinery, the horse in the Mandella story, and I can assure you that he retired sound, after several more trainers and several more wins subsequent to that story. I am also generally of the opinion that if you have to heel-nerve, the horse probably ought to be retired or rested. But Dr. Arthur did make a good point, that if Refinery had not been heel-nerved and was simply kicked out of racing, chances are that he would have disappeared like a lot of other TB geldings. After he became notorious, he went on to many more wins and probably received very vigilant care because of it. No one wanted him to break down on their watch. Now he's retired, turned out on 10 acres, and happy as a clam. He seems to have full feeling in his foot again, and the vet told me that the nerves often regenerate around the nerved area. I have to say that I don't think that heel-nerving is the evil thing that I once thought. I would not do it on one of my own horses --I would simply retire any horse with lameness issues -- but perhaps it is a better alternative than throwing away a gelding to a horse dealer that slaughters it.

[majxmom]

And to get back to the original question, Refinery's case spurred a new regulation so that only horses nerved PRIOR to 10-1-08 were eligible to race in CA. So CA does grandfather heel-nerved horses.