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(Edited by madman marz at 9:51 pm on June 9, 2007)
Quote: from Wallace on 9:34 pm on June 9, 2007[br]A funnel attached to a flexible plastic tube is used to treat a horse with colic on some occasions.  A mixture of petrol and water is an old treatment used to flush a horses digestive system.  This has nothing to do with a horse described as Tubed for racing purposes.<br>
Petrol??? lol….think you might find its liquid parrafin… petrol would more than likely kill the horse lol!
And you are confusing TUBING with TUBED…. tubed is a tracotomey (dp) tubing is where they put a rubber tube into the nose into the stomach .. to clear the digestive tract….putting a tube into the lungs can be fatal.<br>
I beg to differ, I think the tube is used to treat loads of horse ailments, Am I not right  Naps ???
No MM you’re not. In this case he was asking about a racehorse being tubed……it’s all to do with his wind.
The best tubed horse I can remember on the Flat is Scallywag, a grey trained by Bruce Hobbs. He won a handicap off top weight first time out as a three-year-old in 1976 and on the strength of that went off favourite for the Voltigeur but flopped. He was turned out again quickly in the March Stakes at Goodwood the following week but finished a well-beaten third of five, getting plenty of weight from the winner. Two weeks later he took his chance in the Leger, having been tubed in the meantime, and, despite dwelling at the start, showed much-improved form to finish third of fourteen finishers, two lengths and a neck behind the very high-class Crow.
(Edited by guskennedy at 10:58 am on June 10, 2007)
Wallace is right – and Beauzam is way out. When a horse is “tubedâ€ÂÂ
i think some people might be getting confused with the old-fashioned procedure of putting a tube into the horses tomach and ‘washing out’ with bicarbonate of soda to make the horse, ahem, get the squits to cure things like mercury poisoning.
The only tubed horse I can recall seeing running over the jumps this season (though doubtless there will be others) is Gunson Hight, who popped up at 33-1 in a Hexham chase under Chris Gillies for Willie Amos a few weeks back. A horse absolutely plagued by breathing problems during his career, I couldn’t have imagined him lasting around that stiff track without the assistance of the tube.
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