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Hi, I'm sorry to come in late.  I've been working (ack!!)

I know full well the "evils" of the TB racing industry, but I gotta tell
you that, for a jumper-dressage rider-eventer, OTTTBs are a gift!!
Where else can you get a horse who is backed, can walk, trot, canter and
gallop, stands for the farrier, will climb into a horse box without
batting an eyelid, is traffic proof and crowd proof - for a song!!  I'd
be lost without the racing industry.

Having said that, there is good and bad in all industries.  I like to
get my babies from friends who own, breed, and train their own horses.
The horses are raised in fields in a herd, backed as late two-year-olds
and come into racing as late 3yo's.  They currently have two mares who
are running and winning as TEN YEAR OLDS.  That should say something for
the horse's soundness.  Sure, some of them break down, but when you
produce that many in a year, you are bound to have some who do, no
matter how careful you are, it's the law of averages.

Their stallions go out into fields, and the mares and geldings are
pastured together.  It's horsey heaven.  

I'm not sure what the answer is, because I know that not all TBs have
such a good life, but I do confess that I am a fan of the sport of horse
racing.  Sorry!

Tracey 





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