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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2008, 04:03:51 PM » |
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I'm so glad I didn't see it. they talked about it on the news tonight. Her ankels were broke so bad one had a bone right through it. and they did mention they were being bred too heavy and had big hearts for racing, but she had little ankels, legs?
And being over-bred.
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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2008, 09:17:17 PM » |
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I don't like horse racing. There's too much money involved with it. I'm wary of big money these days.
These tragic injuries and resulting horse deaths seem to happen fairly often, too.
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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2008, 09:31:18 PM » |
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When I was 10 years old I watched the great Ruffian go down at Belmont (on television). All these years later I can still cry for her and the tragic way her life ended. I watched the Derby yesterday and as soon as I saw the horse down on the track I changed the channel. My husband told me later on what happened to her. Another tragedy....... Very, very sad. I am not a fan of animal sports because I always wonder how the animals are really treated.
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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2008, 12:14:53 PM » |
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Some horses are probably well-treated. I think Phar Lap was, but reading that web site I learned that someone attempted to kill him in Australia, too. They did a drive by shooting when his caretaker had him out for exercise. Most likely an attempted hit by a rival's owner. It is really heartbreaking to see that he survived that and view the old footage of him being hoisted onto an ocean liner, only to be assasinated here in the U.S. There is just too much corruption with the gambling and other big money involved for the sport to have any credibility for me. Hedge funds are into this now. http://hedgefund.blogspot.com/2006/02/sports-betting-hedge-fund.html"Most popular sports produce a vast array of statistics, which with the right tools can be mined for predictive information. Take horse racing. I know of quants who have taken serious money (USD 100 million+) out of just Hong Kong horse racing."  |
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« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2008, 04:13:24 PM » |
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« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2008, 12:28:32 PM » |
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Races again today....  I pray that all of the horses make it through... I will NOT be watching... |
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« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2008, 04:37:18 PM » |
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It's so sad. I used to love to watch the races, and now i don't dare to. They even said on the News tonight, that they are allowed to give a small amount of steriods to the horses. I never knew that. But then, we are finding out a lot that we never knew. Money is all they want |
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« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2008, 07:09:36 PM » |
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Didn't watch here either. I don't even know who won,just hope all are still healthy.
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« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2008, 07:14:14 PM » |
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I caught my husband trying watch and told him about the boycott and he decided to join in. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/sports/othersports/17horses.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=cb7e35afabc8dce4&ex=1211169600"But most racehorses run a far different route — downward, slipping from rung to rung in the sport’s hierarchy. Some are traded a dozen or more times as their earnings fade, until someone decides that the horse is no longer worth the time and money to keep it.
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« Reply #25 on: June 06, 2008, 09:36:16 PM » |
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Well Belmont is tomorrow... I hope and pray that all horses make it ok. I hate races now!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #26 on: June 14, 2008, 06:17:09 PM » |
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This is a lot worse than We thought. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_sp_ot/rac_euthanized_horses;_ylt=AudCZRpkvbztjMriIvyYG3us0NUE IMPACT: AP finds 5K horse deaths since '03 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. reported more than three horse deaths a day last year and 5,000 since 2003, and the vast majority were put down after suffering devastating injuries on the track Countless other deaths went unreported because of lax record keeping, the AP found in the broadest such review to date. The catastrophic breakdown of filly Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby last month made the fragility of a half-ton horse vivid for the millions watching, but the AP found that such injuries occur regularly in every racing state. Tracks in California and New York, which rank first and sixth in thoroughbred races, combine to average more than one thoroughbred death for every day of the year |
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« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2008, 12:57:35 AM » |
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Sure doesn't sound too optimistic as far as improving things:
"Of particular interest to Congress is the influence of steroids, which were legal this spring in most racing states including Kentucky, Maryland and New York — which host the Triple Crown races.
Those advocating a steroid crackdown got ammunition when Big Brown, who easily won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with the steroid Winstrol still in his bloodstream, ran the Belmont without it and finished last.
Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., said steroids should be banned — not regulated — in horse racing but questions whether the sport has the ability to police itself.
"There are enough people I have great respect for who say this industry is really beginning to be in trouble," Whitfield said."
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