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Originally Posted by superlarge  Does it seem odd to anyone that he managed to run strong across the finish line with severly injured legs? I wonder if they tried to stop the horse too quickly after the race and damaged him then? I realise they are all very experienced and therefore I realise I'm probably silly to even wonder something like that, but I'm just baffled at how the collapse didn't occur until 1/4 mile past the finish line. |
That is strange, but when an injury occurs it's hard to determine when it happens and even control. As I understand it, 8-Belles was doing rather well and then the other horse seemed to pull and win going away by a good margin of victory. A jockey surely wouldn't want that horse to collapse in the middle of the pack and in 2nd place. There would be a lot of trampling, not to mention how many horses would get injured, perhaps destroyed and effectively end a triple crown on the first race. Maybe the jockey ran the horse thru to the end of the race on bad wheels so to speak ?