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Title: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: mjellish on June 04, 2014, 03:05:28 PM
I think it\'s a relevant question.  My guy has looked and looked and can\'t tell.  Anyone see him close enough to tell?
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: mjellish on June 04, 2014, 03:06:18 PM
Forgot to mention, he is a noisy galloper according to my guy.  So I think it is a very relevant question.
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: TMW on June 04, 2014, 03:12:11 PM
mjellish Wrote:
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> Forgot to mention, he is a noisy galloper
> according to my guy.  So I think it is a very
> relevant question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICxNVNskfM

Hard to tell with his white blaze. Looks like it and makes sense he would. You will have to decide.
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: Michael D. on June 04, 2014, 03:14:23 PM
I don\'t know. it\'s not on here, before a workout in Baltimore.


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/California-Chrome-Ready-for-Anything-in-Preakness-Maryland-Triple-Crown-Kentucky-Derby-Winner-259458301.html
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: smalltimer on June 04, 2014, 04:01:06 PM
He only uses the strip when he races.  Read that numerous times.
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: mjellish on June 04, 2014, 04:10:58 PM
Well, he gallops like shi* and sounds like a freight train blowing when he gallops.

But when he works he doesn\'t make that noise, so I\'m guessing when he works he wears it.  Anyone know for sure?

Just trying to find some empirical evidence one way or the other if the nasal strip helps this horse other than the connections saying they were out of the Belmont without it.  

I\'m thinking it must.
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: smalltimer on June 04, 2014, 04:18:38 PM
From ABC news Fresno, CA KFSN-TV on Mon May 19.2014
\"Some horses, like humans, wear nasal strips to assist breathing.  The colt wears the strip only during races, not training.\"
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: Boscar Obarra on June 04, 2014, 04:24:40 PM
Doesn\'t look like he was wearing anything to me, and you can hear him very loudly in that youtube vid.

From 2010, but interesting

http://youtu.be/Bp3WTKPv9OQ
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: mjellish on June 04, 2014, 04:36:12 PM
what youtube vid?
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: slewzapper on June 04, 2014, 05:13:46 PM
He doesn\'t appear to be wearing it in his work at Belmont.
Title: Re: Does anyone know if Chrome Gallops with a Nasal Strip
Post by: Boscar Obarra on June 04, 2014, 05:44:34 PM
the one in TMW\'s post right under yours