Thought I'm comment on this before I head out the door.
This year it looks like 10 metabolic deaths in 20,000 starts. Now peel
the next layer off the onion. Those 20,000 starts were not unique
horses. Those 20,000 starts represent between 4 and 5 thousand
different horses.
This tell us that one in every 400 to 500 horses that participated in
an endurance ride in 2003 died from metabolic failure. That is a lower
bound since those are only the ones on which we have knowledge.
One in 400 to 500 is getting right on up there - may not be quite as
bad as TB racing but when we start comparing ourselves to TB racing to
make us feel better about one in 4 to 5 hundred dying, I have to agree
that we are in deep trouble.
Out of here - y'all have a good day
Truman
Howard Bramhall wrote:
And if this is what we're going to start comparing ourselves to
we are in deep, deep trouble.
Just look at the number of deaths tolerated in flat track
racing. It is in the high hundreds and that does not count
the discards that get tossed every season.
