A Word About War Pass

The pedigree analysts will find the injury to War Pass confirmation that progeny of sprinters are unable to "get the distance". While I understand it in theory, how do they explain Gayego Black Jack and Recapture The Glory (by Cherokee Run).

Some will see WP as an affirmation that we have a more fragile breed, even while we're in process of seeing a big reduction in the number of injured Derby prospects in the last year or so. Personally, could I choose from the last 3o years any one horse to train fo the Derby, it might well have been War Pass.

Can injuries like this be prevented and can we devise a system of training that will make the horse sound enough to survive these rigors, or maybe the point is that we must since this barn just gave us a horse in the Wood Memorial a few strides from another disaster.

There are questions of course. Zito training questions, and questions for the many other Zitos out there that injure permanently everything they get a hold of usually within a few months. You can ask how a major barn such as this can fail to diagnose a detached torn away sesamoid bone until two weeks post race. Did they forget to X-ray(see comment attached to this post)? Might it have occurred to them that a horse raced this hard on this little work would be inevitably injured? Is Cool Coal man their next victim?

These are a few of the reasons I believe whenever there is a catastrophic racing injury there should be an investigation, Steward's inquiry and lengthy suspension with the finding of training negligence.

The light training and infrequent breeze work done by War Pass prior to his injury is my present subject. How often do we need to breeze/race to prevent this from happening?

Training:
Sun 4/20: 10 min riderless play over bumpy ground + ten min under tack for Art.