Race Appropriate Fracture Resistance (FR): Conclusions

I guess I am ready to wrap this up, although there's a bit more thinking to do. Yet to be covered, definitely, the major concern of bone "de-training", whether there are any other remodeling processes besides the one already covered, and, to take an objective look at all the info and see if firm conclusions are really possible.

Recent major injuries cast yet a little more light: Musket Man, Pioneer Of The Nile. I'd viewed a few flaws in the training of Musket Man, although the video showed the trainer to be a young fellow with a head on his shoulders. Baffert I viewed as probably the most technically sound of this year's TC trainers, and he appeared to do a decent (as opposed to "perfect") job with POTN.

If the likes of POTN and Musket Man, who had better trainers than most of the TC horses, go down can we say this is "just racing"?

Readers of the blog know that I think otherwise. Injuries are eminent preventable although great care is required.

So, let's get on with it and finally figure out in the coming posts exactly what we need to do to keep our horse running--