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Should There Be an Upper Age Restriction for Racing Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds? – A Personal View from Dr Greg Hargreaves, Vet – Part 3

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Using various Catastrophic Musculoskeletal Injury (CMI) rates I have constructed Table 1. Number of starts go up to three hundred as I have examined Standardbreds at the racetrack who have had in excess of that number of starts. An Australian Thoroughbred, Play David (b1978), had 236 starts and retired in Jun 1992 as a thirteen year old racing mainly in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales.

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