I felt hopeful,regarding the article Preventing catastrophic breakdowns in the racehorse.I my opinion many times the people doing the research or the people questioning,catastrophic breakdowns or severe injuries,are really not looking in the right direction. It seems it is commonly believed that the place to start the detective work at the foot as they say “no foot, no horse” and I’m sure this is true in some cases. This is an old adage,like many beliefs in the horse industry. Which only leads to repeating the same mistakes over and over again. For a better description of myself I’ll call myself an Equine Therapist of Undiagnosed Muscular Dysfuntion. For well over thirty years,I’ve treated and maintained athletic performance in the thoroughbred race horse without incident,many actually improving performance while under my care.You can view the video of some of my patients at innovativeequinetherapy. Web page. The sad part of my story is when a patient changes barns or for some other reason stops treatment,the horse suffers immeasurably,either through reversal in athletic performance or unfortunately catastrophic breakdown. With these events occurring over a thirty year period with many participants,although not under scientific control situations. I believe if I had a scientific crew keeping recorded findings it would prove most catastrophic breakdowns occur because of Undiagnosed Muscular Dysfunction mostly beginning from dysfunctional muscle groups starting from above the knee and above the hock. Yours Truly. Steven Lore