Form & Function: Short Sprinters
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Shammy Davis
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Dave C wrote:The question is with these QH's loaded with TB blood is if you trained them to run longer, could they? The bulk would definitely disappear as the muscle converted to predominantly aerobic activity.
Out here in the Land-o-Short, Fat Horses we unintentionally tested that - it did NOT work!
A friend got a 3 yr old filly into the track from a layup. They galloped her for a few months, then started breezing her. 3/8ths almost killed her. She stopped a bit before she got 1/4 in. They scoped her, they had the vet go over every inch of her legs. They tried again, and again - no luck. Then, one day, someone noticed her lip tattoo - 4 numbers followed by a letter. UH OH!! Turned out the van driver screwed up, badly, and delivered them a very nice QH mare who was supposed to be getting embryos flushed. Non despcript, unraced TB filly had had 2 or 3 embryos flushed and implanted by high powered QH stallions while the nice QH mare was being "tortured: trying to work 3/8s... Trainer laughs about it now, don;t know if the owners can laugh yet!