Need information:
• Effect on racing career?
• Suggested treaments?
• Any relevant experience/stories?
• How good are the OCDequine pellets? Experience?
Horse is 2, does not look to be a bad case... scale from 1-10, maybe a 4. Just got out of the 2 year-old in training sale, resting and turned-out for a while in a lovely Florida Farm. Second set of xrays are being taken... just to be sure, in about a week.
OCD's
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dray33 - I purchased the OCDequine pellets for my colts who had x-ray issues in November - by January they were both clean - they had been on MSM, Lubrisyn, etc... prior to that. Don't know if it was the OCD pellets or if the x-rays would have cleaned up anyway but with a money back guarantee I'm a believer in it since I had success with it. Don't know if that helps or not - but I would use it again.
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excellent pdf about ocds:
http://www.consignorsandbreeders.com/CBA-OCDBook.pdf
includes:
A few of the many successful horses with OCDs
Xtra Heat
(1998 Dixieland Heat out of Begin, by Hatchet Man)
Won 26 of 34 starts in four seasons of racing and earned
$2,174,635. Her most notable victories (from 24 stakes
successes) include the Beaumont Stakes, Prioress Stakes, Phoenix
Breeders’ Cup, Barbara Fritchie Handicap (twice), Genuine Risk
Handicap, and Vagrancy Handicap, as well as a second in the
Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Co-breeder Pope McLean said, “We sold her as a weanling for
$9,100, and she resold as a yearling at OBS August in Florida for
$4,700, and then resold as a 2-year-old in training for $5,000.
The same situation was going on in the last two sales: she wasn’t
passing the vet.”
Trainer John Salzman examined Xtra Heat at a 2-year-old in
training sale, liked the athletic potential he saw, and bought her at
a bargain-basement price.
Salzman selected Xtra Heat because of her physical type
— she looked really fast — and he never vetted her. Later he said,
“I never would have known about the OCDs, but after her second
victory, a man tried to buy her and had her vetted.”
That unlucky man had a vet who spotted the OCDs on the 2-
year-old filly’s radiographs and turned down the future champion
and multi-millionaire.
Farda Amiga
(1999 by Broad Brush out of Fly North, by Pleasant Colony)
Champion 3-year-old filly in 2002. Won four of eight lifetime
starts and earned $1,282,302. At 3, she won the Grade 1
Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes, finished second in the Grade
1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
At the Keeneland September sale in 2000, she brought only
$45,000 as part of the select Book 1 of the auction “because of
OCDs in both stifles,” said Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Farm, which
consigned her. “She had OCDs in both stifles on the medial femoral
condyle. Although she was a well-bred, good-looking filly in the
select part of the sale, the OCDs made her affordable for anyone.”
Favorite Trick
(1995 by Phone Trick out of Evil Elaine, by Medieval Man)
Horse of the Year at 2 and champion 2-year-old colt in 1997
when he was unbeaten in eight starts. Won 12 out of 16 races
lifetime and earned $1,726,793. His most notable victories include
the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Hopeful, and Breeders’ Futurity at
Keeneland.
Sold for $32,000 in Book 1 of the Keeneland September
sale and resold for $100,000 as a 2-year-old in training. Although
an athletic and outstanding specimen, Favorite Trick was heavily
discounted, especially as a yearling, because of OCDs. Those were
cleaned up surgically, and he never looked back.
Cajun Beat
(2000 by Grand Slam out of Beckys Shirt, by Cure the Blues)
Won seven of 18 starts and earned $1,059,100. His most
important victories were the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and the Kentucky
Cup Sprint.
Sold for $145,000 at the Keeneland November sale. According
to Mark Taylor, “He was an unbelievably good-looking weanling who
didn’t sell very well. The folks at Padua liked what they saw, had
surgery done on both stifles, and the horse wins the Breeders’ Cup
Sprint.”
Artie Schiller
(2001 by El Prado out of Hidden Light, by Majestic Light)
Won the Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2005 and has earned more than
$2 million to date. Still in training.
Sold for $67,000 at Keeneland September in 2002. Bayne
Welker of Mill Ridge said, “He had an irregular cyst in the distal
lateral P1 that appeared to communicate with the joint.”
Zavata
(2000 by Phone Trick out of Pert Lady, by Cox’s Ridge)
Won five of 13 races, including the Saratoga Special, earning
$346,533.
A tremendous-looking yearling, Zavata sold for $170,000 at
the Keeneland September sale and then resold as a 2-year-old in
training for $575,000.
Bayne Welker said, “He had an OCD on the apex of the lateral
sesamoids of his right hind.”
Bandini
(2003 by Fusaichi Pegasus out of Divine Dixie, by Dixieland Band)
Still training and racing, Bandini is a Grade 1 winner of the Blue
Grass Stakes.
Given the current marketplace, he could have represented a
financial disaster for co-breeder Junior Little because “he had a tiny
OCD in a stifle,” Little recalled. “They didn’t want any part of him as
a weanling, and he had eight people who went to the repository to
look at his films, but none came to scope him. They didn’t pass him
on the x-rays. So we scratched him from the sale. Then, I brought
him back home, gave him Adequan, and the OCD resolved before
the yearling sale. He brought $500,000 as a yearling.”
Unbridled ’s Song
(1993 by Unbridled out of Trolley Song, by Caro)
Won five of 12 starts, with his most memorable victories
coming in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Florida Derby, and Wood
Memorial, earning $1,311,800.
Unbridled’s Song was turned back at the Barrett’s select sale of
2-year-olds in training after vets discovered a “flake” in his ankle.
The gray colt had brought $1.4 million, a record price for a juvenile
in training at the time.
The owner took him back, and the horse won the Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile later that season in his third start. At stud, he is one of the
most successful and popular stallions in America.
http://www.consignorsandbreeders.com/CBA-OCDBook.pdf
includes:
A few of the many successful horses with OCDs
Xtra Heat
(1998 Dixieland Heat out of Begin, by Hatchet Man)
Won 26 of 34 starts in four seasons of racing and earned
$2,174,635. Her most notable victories (from 24 stakes
successes) include the Beaumont Stakes, Prioress Stakes, Phoenix
Breeders’ Cup, Barbara Fritchie Handicap (twice), Genuine Risk
Handicap, and Vagrancy Handicap, as well as a second in the
Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Co-breeder Pope McLean said, “We sold her as a weanling for
$9,100, and she resold as a yearling at OBS August in Florida for
$4,700, and then resold as a 2-year-old in training for $5,000.
The same situation was going on in the last two sales: she wasn’t
passing the vet.”
Trainer John Salzman examined Xtra Heat at a 2-year-old in
training sale, liked the athletic potential he saw, and bought her at
a bargain-basement price.
Salzman selected Xtra Heat because of her physical type
— she looked really fast — and he never vetted her. Later he said,
“I never would have known about the OCDs, but after her second
victory, a man tried to buy her and had her vetted.”
That unlucky man had a vet who spotted the OCDs on the 2-
year-old filly’s radiographs and turned down the future champion
and multi-millionaire.
Farda Amiga
(1999 by Broad Brush out of Fly North, by Pleasant Colony)
Champion 3-year-old filly in 2002. Won four of eight lifetime
starts and earned $1,282,302. At 3, she won the Grade 1
Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes, finished second in the Grade
1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
At the Keeneland September sale in 2000, she brought only
$45,000 as part of the select Book 1 of the auction “because of
OCDs in both stifles,” said Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Farm, which
consigned her. “She had OCDs in both stifles on the medial femoral
condyle. Although she was a well-bred, good-looking filly in the
select part of the sale, the OCDs made her affordable for anyone.”
Favorite Trick
(1995 by Phone Trick out of Evil Elaine, by Medieval Man)
Horse of the Year at 2 and champion 2-year-old colt in 1997
when he was unbeaten in eight starts. Won 12 out of 16 races
lifetime and earned $1,726,793. His most notable victories include
the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Hopeful, and Breeders’ Futurity at
Keeneland.
Sold for $32,000 in Book 1 of the Keeneland September
sale and resold for $100,000 as a 2-year-old in training. Although
an athletic and outstanding specimen, Favorite Trick was heavily
discounted, especially as a yearling, because of OCDs. Those were
cleaned up surgically, and he never looked back.
Cajun Beat
(2000 by Grand Slam out of Beckys Shirt, by Cure the Blues)
Won seven of 18 starts and earned $1,059,100. His most
important victories were the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and the Kentucky
Cup Sprint.
Sold for $145,000 at the Keeneland November sale. According
to Mark Taylor, “He was an unbelievably good-looking weanling who
didn’t sell very well. The folks at Padua liked what they saw, had
surgery done on both stifles, and the horse wins the Breeders’ Cup
Sprint.”
Artie Schiller
(2001 by El Prado out of Hidden Light, by Majestic Light)
Won the Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2005 and has earned more than
$2 million to date. Still in training.
Sold for $67,000 at Keeneland September in 2002. Bayne
Welker of Mill Ridge said, “He had an irregular cyst in the distal
lateral P1 that appeared to communicate with the joint.”
Zavata
(2000 by Phone Trick out of Pert Lady, by Cox’s Ridge)
Won five of 13 races, including the Saratoga Special, earning
$346,533.
A tremendous-looking yearling, Zavata sold for $170,000 at
the Keeneland September sale and then resold as a 2-year-old in
training for $575,000.
Bayne Welker said, “He had an OCD on the apex of the lateral
sesamoids of his right hind.”
Bandini
(2003 by Fusaichi Pegasus out of Divine Dixie, by Dixieland Band)
Still training and racing, Bandini is a Grade 1 winner of the Blue
Grass Stakes.
Given the current marketplace, he could have represented a
financial disaster for co-breeder Junior Little because “he had a tiny
OCD in a stifle,” Little recalled. “They didn’t want any part of him as
a weanling, and he had eight people who went to the repository to
look at his films, but none came to scope him. They didn’t pass him
on the x-rays. So we scratched him from the sale. Then, I brought
him back home, gave him Adequan, and the OCD resolved before
the yearling sale. He brought $500,000 as a yearling.”
Unbridled ’s Song
(1993 by Unbridled out of Trolley Song, by Caro)
Won five of 12 starts, with his most memorable victories
coming in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Florida Derby, and Wood
Memorial, earning $1,311,800.
Unbridled’s Song was turned back at the Barrett’s select sale of
2-year-olds in training after vets discovered a “flake” in his ankle.
The gray colt had brought $1.4 million, a record price for a juvenile
in training at the time.
The owner took him back, and the horse won the Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile later that season in his third start. At stud, he is one of the
most successful and popular stallions in America.
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