You must work for the Media! If you would have copied both my
sentences. Here is what I said in total: Remember all TB
birthdays are 01/01 for racing. And yes, they do try and have early
foaling dates, but still it is so close in "just-turned-two" that it's totally
stupid!
If you think they just jump on two to three weeks before a race then go to
Santa Anita and watch them breeze horse's all morning....And there're are many
"not quite two yet" in Feb & March. Since we are only talking about
months here, please take it to consideration that the horse is only 24 months
old and if you take 2-3 months from that it IS STILL VERY, VERY YOUNG!
So whippee! their 2 years and 3 months by June....
Tammy Robinson (16,000 AERC miles) Trail-Rite
Products 18171 Lost Creek Road Saugus, CA 91390 661/513-9269
office 661/713-3912 cell 661/513-9206 fax www.trail-rite.com
In a message dated 5/4/2008 9:10:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
While I,
personally, agree that racing horses as two and three year olds is asking
too much of them, it would be wrong to think that just because race horses
have their "official" birthday on January 1, that that means people are out
there racing horses that are, if you take their real date of birth to
calculate their ages, yearlings.
