A Dictionary Of Horse Racing Terms – B – Part 1
Bad Legs:
Bad Legs are a very common condition amongst racehorses
To really get to grips with what is involved when training a horse in preparation to race, we should make a comparison with the process that is undergone when training human athletes.
For example, what might have happened if Seb Coe had tried to run in the 100m?
Did you ever see Seb Coe turning up on the track without his tracksuit on, or would he have raced if he had badly injured his legs?
Horses exactly like humans have distances that they favor and are competitive at, and this is very important in deciding how a horse will fare in a race against the competition.
When sweating up before or after a race, horses have blankets thrown over them because just as humans pull muscles, strain tendons and in severe cases pull up during a race, so do horses.
Trainers get really anxious about a horses forelegs. It is these in particular that take a great deal of punishment during a race, and especially when jumping fences or when the ground is very hard.
Sometimes the condition bad legs can be put...
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