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Sorry I have not posted in a while, but to be honest, it's been pretty quite around here lately.
I was so looking forward to this time of year, I love watching the races, and have been rooting for someone to win the triple crown for the past SEVERAL years! Even when Madilyn was born, I was in my hospital bed, and I just HAD TO WATCH the Belmont Stakes, the third race, I don't remember what horse it was at the time, I think Cigar, but I was so bummed when he did not win.
The past couple of years though, I have had mixed feelings about the whole thing. I still love watching them, but hey I love horses so any chance I can get to see these amazing animals, I will! But ever since Barbaro I get a little anxious thinking who might be next.
I did not get to watch the Kentuck Derby this year, Lily had a Birthday party to go to, and I tried to leave early, but it just did not happen. DH called me on my way home, and wanted to know if I wanted to hear what happened. I was ready to walk in the house with my hands over my ears, and look it up myself. But he kept asking, but do you want to know WHAT HAPPENED! I asked if Big Brown won ( I did not want him to ) and he said yes, I wanted the filly to win, and he said, "well, she came in second, and then she collapsed." My heart sunk!
This whole thing should never even happen! It does simply because greedy people want the money.
Horses do not fully mature until they are around 5-6 years old. But they start trainging racehorses earlier around 1-2, and they are racing by three or sooner. Their bones are still growing! But the way the owners look at it, well, it costs money to keep the horses, and the sooner they train them the more money they can make. If they held on to them until they where 5-6, then it would cost the owners more ! SUCKS! but it's the sad, sad thruth.
I'm not gonna say I won't watch any more, cause that would not be me, but I sure do hope that they realize this is just cruel, and decide for some kind of changes! If you think it does not happen that often, think again. Just at one race track in California from 2004-2006 55 horses were put down because they broke bones. It's just we don't hear about the normal everyday races.
What a beautiful animal too!
posted by Angela at 9:03 PM
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that was just horrible - D was watching and called me in to see what happened, but I couldn't watch the replay. Just terrible.
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First I have heard. How sad!
I heard about it yesterday and was so, so sad. What a horrible thing -- I just keep thinking about.
I don't understand it either............some people just suck!
I missed it because I was out shopping and I'm glad I did. However, I saw tons of news about it on the internet. But you know what, I went out to dinner this week with some girlfriends (it's a once a month time away from our hubbies and kids) and one of the girls said one of the big problems with race horses here in the US is that so many of them are inbred or products of inbreeding. She said all of the racehorses in this years Kentucky Derby were somehow related to each other. I can't remember what she said. Because of this the horses have lots of injuries, etc.
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