The man who does the farrier work for our horses also does the farrier work for the local horse racing tracks. He comes to us full of horse racing results and stories of all kinds related to thoroughbred racing. I am a horse lover and even though I do not frequent the horse racing tracks a part of me loves to watch the races on television or hear stories about fantastic horse racing results. I also work in a busy emergency department and on more than one occasion I have had patients that have come from the horse racing tracks, a few times they were jockeys that had some how been unseated from their mounts and were now on the thoroughbred racing industry injury list. Fortunately this does not happen very often at horse racing tracks and by the end of the day most horse racing results are reported injury free. In some areas thoroughbred racing is still very popular and every year the prize stakes seem to increase making the world of thoroughbred racing that much more appealing to the betting crowd.