Originally Posted by
KTQ
Why do so many thoroughbreds windsuck? We've only had one standardbred ever do it, and not even much, and that's because she was 17+hh and the stable was too confining for her size. We kept her in a paddock and she never did it. (side note: she used to get stomach ulcers which perhaps is related to stressy stable life. She used to fill her water with mouthfuls of feed, maybe to rinse it down? Her water would have an inch of horse feed on the top after breaky and dinner)
Is it because thoroughbreds get kept in inner city boxes with no paddocks? That can't be the case for all of them