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ENGLISH IDEAS OF "TUBING" HORSES English horsemen have had much more experience with "tubed" horses than we have. The roarer is a national institution and the English vet. deals with him by and large according to his racing worth. The English racing theorist the purist who wants to run for anyones money but his own, but to run for it in purist fashion thinks that the tubed horse should be barred because he has artificial aid following the dope evil line of reasoning. Tubed Kerasos win of the Derb;? Cup started a lot of comment. The general opinion, professional all around, is that English tubing is efficacious in its early stages, but that when the surrounding cartilages thicken the horse begins to feel the want of a free air-channel. Then it may be that the operation is repeated in a lower part of the windpipe, ind all is well for the time being with such practice. But the thickening still goes on and fundamentally tubing is a mere bridge. It seems that in 1899 Breemounts Pride won the Manchester Steeplechase after being tubed for a week, but two weeks later she was beaten off and roaring like a bull. The English know more about roaring and its relief than we do and rather think by and large that tubing is merely a temporary relief.
