Relating Injuries To Training
Just as I was getting on this new subject down goes Ravel with a problem area on the condylar aspect of his cannon bone. Unknown which front leg. For those unfamiliar, the condylar area would be the area where the bottom of the cannon bone meets the fetlock (ankle). It is the larger, more porous area that supports the base of the bone. You may visualize a part of the condylar aspect breaking or disintegrating at speed causing the main cannon bone to displace or slide across the fetlock producing an instantaneous and spiraling catostrophy.
Unknown which goes first, the sesamoid or condylar or that it matters. Either way, after the developing fracture gives way, you might get a change of angle as the leg hits the ground, if you want to replay Barbaro whose just operated on right hind is pictured-- P1, sesamoid and condylar fractures. And then there is the Pine Island-Go For Wand thing where you get a break in the cannon bone itself and the leg snaps. Horrific stuff!
In the case of Ravel, if I read correctly, Pletcher caught the thing before there was a full blown fracture. They apparently found a spot on the X-Rays. While the horse being "off" on this leg gave them a hint, how many trainers would this have passed by? Just a rhetorical question. Nice job by Plecher!
BUT, and this is our quandary, BUT, how does this happen????????????????????
Just today on the Pedigree Forum somebody posted that the current California Horseracing Board Veterinary List has on it an entire back stretch of horses. How's it happen????????????????????????????????????
( note "anonymous" comment on this in comment section, please)
And, here's an even more interesting question. After we determine the ailment, can we find the cure?
3/24/07: Day 3 Burch: 4 x 2f riderless heats :12-:14sec/f approx. speed.
3/25/07: Day 1 Burch: Some slight tendon filling front legs. Ten min walk under tack.
3/26/07: Day 2 Burch: Filling gone, but we're wary. The horse seems a little out of sorts today. Keeping my eye on it. He's getting bullied by all the oldsters now. Gave banamine for possible colic as he's ground pawing. Galloped riderless a little more crisply than I cared to given Day 3 coming tomorrow, off and on for 10 min. Fairly tough w/o. Then Nob and 10 min walk under tack, much more open and away from other horses and big improvement over yesterday, though still balky.
Unknown which goes first, the sesamoid or condylar or that it matters. Either way, after the developing fracture gives way, you might get a change of angle as the leg hits the ground, if you want to replay Barbaro whose just operated on right hind is pictured-- P1, sesamoid and condylar fractures. And then there is the Pine Island-Go For Wand thing where you get a break in the cannon bone itself and the leg snaps. Horrific stuff!
In the case of Ravel, if I read correctly, Pletcher caught the thing before there was a full blown fracture. They apparently found a spot on the X-Rays. While the horse being "off" on this leg gave them a hint, how many trainers would this have passed by? Just a rhetorical question. Nice job by Plecher!
BUT, and this is our quandary, BUT, how does this happen????????????????????
Just today on the Pedigree Forum somebody posted that the current California Horseracing Board Veterinary List has on it an entire back stretch of horses. How's it happen????????????????????????????????????
( note "anonymous" comment on this in comment section, please)
And, here's an even more interesting question. After we determine the ailment, can we find the cure?
3/24/07: Day 3 Burch: 4 x 2f riderless heats :12-:14sec/f approx. speed.
3/25/07: Day 1 Burch: Some slight tendon filling front legs. Ten min walk under tack.
3/26/07: Day 2 Burch: Filling gone, but we're wary. The horse seems a little out of sorts today. Keeping my eye on it. He's getting bullied by all the oldsters now. Gave banamine for possible colic as he's ground pawing. Galloped riderless a little more crisply than I cared to given Day 3 coming tomorrow, off and on for 10 min. Fairly tough w/o. Then Nob and 10 min walk under tack, much more open and away from other horses and big improvement over yesterday, though still balky.
posted by rather rapid at
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2 Comments:
My comment address only the following portion of your commentary:
Your Quote:
Just today on the Pedigree Forum somebody posted that the current California Horseracing Board Veterinary List has on it an entire back stretch of horses. How's it happen???????????????????????????????????? [end quote]
That particular Vet List, published at www.chrb.ca.gov, has horses on it from 1998. Clearly they don't update it to reflect a complete and accurate picture, nor do they clean it up. It is likely just another governmental agency "getting by" with the "good enough for Government work" mentality. I wouldn't advise using it as any measure of reality for what is really going on at California tracks; good or bad.
I added a reference to your comment in the post after the quote. txs.
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