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I see the trainer of this horse  who raced well below expectations last week at rangiora has reported this horse had a highly elevated heart rate after racing and has been sent for a spell. Fair enough, seems honest.    However it was noted on the day that a veterinary examination after its performance revealed no abnormalities.  Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but  was this a)a cover up by the vet on the day or b- the  horse not showing any abnormalities on the day to cause its poor performance after being placed under the stress of racing as the vet reported.  Are some thinking we are fools or is it just a very strange thing that happened. Not in any way suggesting there is anything dodgy from the trainer here.

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 Not contradictory at all.

if a horse races as this one did then it is obvious it was unlikely to be 100%. This was confirmed by its trainer.  I would suggest the vet must have known it had a highly elevated heart rate if  they had bothered to check. If they did not check that when examining the horse then they aren't much of a vet and whats the point of saying the horse was examined post race by the vet.  Either the vet has misled the stipes or the stipes have misled the public.    

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Really depends on the time elapsed post race before the vet checked the horse out.  If the horse had been washed, cooled out, had a drink etc it may well have returned to a normalised rate and the vet can presumably only report on what they see at the time as they're reporting in a professional capacity.  Happened with one of ours several years ago that had breathing issues, the vet was busy with others that required more urgent treatment and by the time he got to ours he was basically back to normal.

 Contradictory maybe, but no great conspiracy 

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1 hour ago, Jazz said:

Really depends on the time elapsed post race before the vet checked the horse out.  If the horse had been washed, cooled out, had a drink etc it may well have returned to a normalised rate and the vet can presumably only report on what they see at the time as they're reporting in a professional capacity.  Happened with one of ours several years ago that had breathing issues, the vet was busy with others that required more urgent treatment and by the time he got to ours he was basically back to normal.

 Contradictory maybe, but no great conspiracy 

Fair enough,that may have happened but I would suggest if the vet is asked to do a veterinary check then it should be done shortly after the horse has raced. Not hard to work that one out. If your scenario is what happened then it just goes to show we cant place much credence to any reference to a veterinary check in a stipes report.  Maybe not a conspiracy, but still flawed information.

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