An Alphabet Of Horse Racing Terms – B – Part 1
BAD LEGS
A more common condition among racehorses than the public generally realize.
To understand it and indeed to appreciate the whole process of racing,and training horses to race, it is necessary to think of the horses as equine athletes which indeed they are.
To continue the analogy, would Seb Coe have shone over 100m?
Would he have raced if he had jarred his legs badly? would he have dreamed of taking part in a contest without first and last using a tracksuit?
To translate these points into equine terms, horses also have ideal distances over which they should compete, a crucial factor when it comes to weighing up their chances in a race.
Horses wear blankets and rugs in the paddock before a race and afterwards, when perspiring, have a string vest thrown over them, and blankets again, and they no less than their human counterparts pull muscles when racing, strain tendons and because of leg trouble, chronic or temporary may break down altogether and be unable to race.
The horses forelegs particularly when jumping fences and to an extent when running on hard...
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