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Re: [RC] LD rides and fatalities - Truman Prevatt

What struck me is studies have established that 1 horse in 500 starts in TB racing will die because of the race. We had 993 starters in 100's in 2003 and 3 deaths - that's one in 331 for 100 mile endurance which is worse than TB racing.

Given all the conditional comments about small sample, etc. - this still should raise a huge red flag about the 100 mile distance.

Truman

Michael Maul wrote:

In response to:"One thing that struck me, right off the bat, from the table was the large number of 25 milers, in the equine fatality stats. I did think their number would be much lower.

LD riders are about 36% of the total rider/horse entries today. Their completion rates are about 1% higher than the completion rates for 50 mile rides.

4 of 11 fatalities are LD events which is 36%. If you assume that they may be more inexperienced and perhaps less fit than the 50 milers - this isn't unreasonable.

The 100 mile fatalities are the most out of line with about 19% of the total but only about 5% of the entries. Completion rates about 60% compared to 86% for LD/50 mile rides.

Mike



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