Racehorse Injuries

[Shammy Davis]

Mood Swings posted this on the General Forum. As commented, it is very disturbing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/us/de ... odayspaper

I thought this an interesting comment in the article.

. . . the new economics of racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so. Faced with a steep loss of customers, racetracks have increasingly added casino gambling to their operations, resulting in higher purses but also providing an incentive for trainers to race unfit horses. At Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, the number of dead and injured horses has risen sharply since a casino opened there late last year.

[Bast]

"Home-Brewed Stats Skew Times Analysis"

http://www.drf.com/news/crist-home-brewed-stats-skew-times-analysis

I'm working my way through the charts for the first 3 months of this year. Already, there are some interesting trends.

[cewright]

I have not checked the tracks that have night racing, but for daytime tracks today I saw two horses that were eased and walked off the track at Fair Grounds and Unanimous Consent brokedown in the 1st race a Laurel and Fiery Footwork pulled up and was vanned off in the 5th race at Laurel. Have we decided what information we are going to record and who is going to record it?

DDT

I wanted to comment on the difficulty of relying on charts to extract data on injuries. Yesterday, my horse was eased in the third race at WRD. Chart said he "bolted and was eased". Whatever the problem turns out to be it is not catastrophic. He was examined by the state vet after the race and was sound.

Just to follow up Gold Star Alert ran 2nd yesterday at WRD in Race 2.

[Shammy Davis]

http://betfairhollywoodpark.com/file_do ... s_list.pdf