Tommy Sands wrote:Overall problems that track people have found with the poly-track, is that it has too much grip. There is a tremendous amount of non-slip compared to a dirt track. For those would do not believe that toe grabs cause a problem. I would suggest that you check with Dr Suzan Stover and the research people at University of Davis in CA. This study has been going on for at least ten years. Every horse that is put down because of an injury on the track was studied by Dr Stovers team. It is a proven, by extensive research that toe grabs are detrimental to the race horse. Don't go by what I'm saying - contact Dr Stoverr the Jockey Club. Now they have a new problem by these poly tracks and maybe if you did not run horse at 18 months as 2 year olds they last longer. Money talks, bottom line
It is "how" you shoe the horse, and how often you shoe the horse. We need
"qualified journeyman horseshoers" who know how to shoe a race horse correctly!! As it stands now; any one can go in and shoe a horse and get their licience today, since they **** down the standards of shoeing at the track!!!! Even owners can shoe their own horse without any licience.
The Union test diswayed a lot of fly by nite 90 day wonder farriers, who couldn't shoe the race horse.
Also, we don't have horseman anymore, trainers giving more and more drugs, not legging up the horse, or getting totally fit for racing. Also, the breeding has been **** down to any horse bred, destroying conformation, temperment, ect. We have way to many rats and not enough well bred horses at the track.
You are putting all the BLAME on the use of toe-grabs, instead of revamping the whole racing industry and making improvements in ALL areas of this industry.
When Dr. Stoverr is a journeyman horseshoer, taking the JHU test, and shod race horses for the last 17 years, then that person can say anything about the use of toe-grabs, until then their study is useless and moot. That's what you get when you have a vet playing farrier! and I don't care what anyone says, because I'll go up against any vet on shoeing racehorses with toe grabs!
Example: I shod a awsome stallion with XLT queens front, with block heels hind, size 5. Ran, never hit, sound, and won, and hit the board several times. Then went to another track, farrier put on sz 7 queens up front with plains behind and cut ALL THE HEELS DOWN, AND left a 4 inch toe, and was just shod before race. He hit, broke down, and been return to the barn where I shod him just 9 weeks earlier. I took off an inch to toe, left what I could of the heel, and put a wide web "0" with wedge for relief of bowed tendons on both front legs.
It's got to do with *&%*& lousy shoeing on our tracks today!!! Let's get that under control FIRST, then let's find out if toe-grabs are a detriment.
This is "food for thought". .....Linda.....
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