Nasal Strips

[gohorse]

Here is a link to a study.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEkQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revistas.ufg.br%2Findex.php%2Fvet%2Farticle%2FviewFile%2F5396%2F5926&ei=xzp6U-fOHtStsATy9YHgDg&usg=AFQjCNFYUE2B8s2ufp1eTzmgx_bFfDpTSw&sig2=hVNx9mkbPmH8RE9z-EDOkg&cad=rja

The only thing I think this is good for is if your horse snores.

[miff]

errr... you might want to take note that in the same State, NY State,Harness horses use it regularly....only an issue because a very old school NYS steward Carmine D\'Onfrio wanted it that way... no other reason.

[TGJB]

Really, you know they had little impact. Show me data.

And show me another sheet like CC\'s, just another 2yo getting faster at three, other than from a move-up guy or Lasix on. You know, the old 11 point jump to a 1 and no bounces for 6 months.

Like Bobby Valentine used to say, if it doesn\'t matter that Glavine is pitching from off the rubber, let him pitch from on it, it won\'t hurt him any. If it isn\'t helping him, let him run without it.

[chuckles_the_clone]

Yah, with a habernero garnish. Where is Frank Passero now?

[TGJB]

Yeah, why can\'t we be more like the trotters...

[kencbs]

Someone should ask the all-time king of performance enhancers Steve RunAllday for his opinion on nasal strips

[jerry]

You do the numbers. You look it up. But, if they\'re really that potent, why don\'t more trainers use them and why did trainers stop using them? You\'ve got some investment interests in horses, don\'t you. Do your trainers use them? Are you going to suggest they start using them?

[TGJB]

You\'re coming into this string very late, that\'s all been covered.

[jerry]

OK.

[miff]

If something legal moved a horse up 6 inches,every trianer would be using it.

[gohorse]

I posted a link to a study it has no effect on performance.

You should all put one on. If you think this stupid band aid will improve your performance in any activity let me know. The only possible benefit is for snoring in a small % of people.

[miff]

Go,

I read a study that concluded it helped prevent EIPH(bleeding) in a trial involving race horses.

Mike

[jerry]

Who conducted the study?

[P-Dub]

TGJB Wrote:
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> I do not. And given the horse jumped 11 points (6
> 1/2 from an isolated top) and stayed there, with
> that being the only change we\'re aware of, what
> evidence there is says it\'s a performance
> enhancer.


The isolated top was 4 races into his career, followed by a 3 pt move back and a op in the next race which was in the BC.

We all know about his affinity for clean trips, and the backward move after the isolated top can be explained by the trip.

So, one could also say he made a 6 point forward move, at a time horses are improving dramatically.

Was it the Nasal Strip?  Did they change anything else?? Shoes, bit, feed, or any number of things??

You\'re saying its the Nasal Strip, making him perhaps the only horse that has improved this much via a nasal strip. If Nasal Strips move up horses as you suggest, then every horse would be wearing them.

You\'re making your assumptions, that Nasal Strips are performance enhancers, based on your figures.  You aren\'t taking anything else into account as reasons for the improvement.

[TGJB]

First of all, the study was six horses, and under very different circumstances.

Second, I\'ve used them almost every single night since they first hit the stores and they make a HUGE difference in air I get and whether I wake up constantly. It may depend on the person (or horse), but it\'s not a close call with me.