But you have a brain. You don’t “think” like some of them do.
I also don’t want to drag out the Lasix discussion too much but for the sake of education, weight loss from Lasix is definitely a goal in its use. Some trainers will even withhold water or muzzle to prevent eating immediately prior to a race. And I don’t know about the rules in every state, but I have had horses run in VA, WV, and MD on lasix who never had a bad scope.
All trainers withhold water and take away the hay net in the morning prior to a race.
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Believe me, I’ve been around too, so I don’t disagree with you that there are idiots out there. There are people who shouldn’t be in the business at all, yet as they say, “even a blind squirrel will find a nut.”
But I don’t think having regular access to a scale will make people stop feeding their "
This quote is from the Diet/Coach Bleaching thread, post 29.
“I used a copper additive for an entirely different reason. I had a mare that was a ‘barn banger’ when she was in season. Old farrier told me they’d add copper pennies to the water for that. Good luck finding solid copper pennies. I bought some copper, pipe sleeves and dropped them in her water barrel. It worked like a charm. The difference was night and day. (sun bleaching pun intended). I had to buy new pipe sleeves occasionally. The problem was solved.”
So here is a horse owner taking advice from a blacksmith on how to handle issues when a mare is in season. Who knows what, other than copper, may have been in those copper pipe sleeves. Or pennies. That could have leached into the water and caused some other problem. Or how about just a horse having access to a copper pipe sleeve?
If the stats from weighing horses come in showing the horse runs better lighter, there will be trainers who will feed less.
