What's Happened Here?

[Yankiwi]

I'm not sure what's happened here, but it's not a good look.

The greyhound Mighty Sox.

https://www.grnz.co.nz/greyhounds/profiles.aspx?AnimalID=34958

 

07 Dec raced and finished last. Vet checked after the race & cleared of injury.

 

The C3 dog then ran an official weight trial on 12 Jan in a very slow 18.15.

 

Lucky Jack (C5), on that same day recorded a weight trial of 17.42

 

Royal Portrush (C1), on the same day again recorded a weight trail of 17.58

 

Mighty Sox then ran a second weight trial 10 days later on 22 Jan, again very slow in 18.18.

Again, on that same day, 4 other weight trials were held.

1. Opawa Louie (C0) in 17.81
2. Opawa Louise over 645m
3. Old Pal over 645m
4. Rocket Queen (C3) in 17.64

 

Then Might Sox began his tote race campaign again on 02 Feb. He finished in last place in the 6 dog field. Was vet checked after the race because of a check and received a 21 day stand-down because of mild hock pain on one side.

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Trainer was required to get x-rays taken, which was done & revealed both hocks had bone chips in them.

 

Now I'm not going to have a go at the trainer, as I believe all trainers should and most do have the best interest of their greyhounds at heart.

But I am going to have a go at the entire process of greyhound racing.

How could a C3 dog run two solo trials in a snail's pace on a track capable of producing much faster times & not be vet checked after them due to the poor performance? How was the dog even allowed on the track by the vet in the first place, with those two previously existing injuries?

We saw something similar in Auckland last Sunday. A dog had torn two gracilis muscles during a race & only after examination for those injuries, a previously undetected front shoulder injury was found.

GRNZ cannot lower the injury rate of greyhounds when they are letting already injured dogs go out to race in the first place.

Edited March 9 by Yankiwi