Kentucky Derby

[Little Whiskey]

Do you think Alpo will pay extra for Eight Belles?

[Freak Out]

Do you think Alpo will pay extra for Eight Belles?

Horse flesh is horse flesh to them.

[Freak Out]

Speaking of that....who has eaten horse? I have and it was pretty good.

[texaspackerbacker]

What's the big deal here?

You have injuries in human sports all the time, and even occasional deaths. We don't even remotely consider eliminating them. This is just an animal and doesn't even rise to that level. And before anybody calls me callous about animals, I have four dogs I dearly love, and would do serious physical violence to anybody that would hurt them.

The incidences of horse racing deaths--horses, I mean--I would guess, would be far less, percentage-wise than boxing; We've had a ton of crap in the news about wrestling; Hockey fights that become felonies; Knee injuries on artificial turf; What's gonna happen when a wood bat splinter fatally skewers a fan or player?

I say again, this is much ado about nothing.

[Zool]

What's the big deal here?

You have injuries in human sports all the time, and even occasional deaths. We don't even remotely consider eliminating them. This is just an animal and doesn't even rise to that level. And before anybody calls me callous about animals, I have four dogs I dearly love, and would do serious physical violence to anybody that would hurt them.

The incidences of horse racing deaths--horses, I mean--I would guess, would be far less, percentage-wise than boxing; We've had a ton of crap in the news about wrestling; Hockey fights that become felonies; Knee injuries on artificial turf; What's gonna happen when a wood bat splinter fatally skewers a fan or player?

I say again, this is much ado about nothing.

I'm going to have to agree. I will equate this to the absolute outrage over Vick killing dogs -vs- Rae Carruth killing his pregnant girlfriend. The Vick story was huge. The Carruth story wasnt anywhere near as big and he killed 2 humans.

[Little Whiskey]

Do you think Alpo will pay extra for Eight Belles?

Horse flesh is horse flesh to them.

but could this be considered premium? kinda like kobe beef?

[Guiness]

The abuse of greyhounds is well documented. Here in the Portland area, there is greyhound adoption agency that finds homes for former racing greyhounds rather than have them put down.

Despite their size, greyhounds make good family pets as they are mild-mannered and loyal to their adoptive families.

Quite. And I think most tracks run agencies like that now...

They certainly are great pets - I used to live near an adoption agency that I helped out with, and have had 3 of them myself. You wouldn't think it, but they are quite sedate in the house.

[Guiness]

There are a bunch of factors that play into this kind of breakdown on the track...inbreeding, drug and steroid use...lots of stuff. Every horse in the race shared a pretty tight bloodline and were all "related". Racing in other countries is different in the fact that most steroids are not allowed.

Ya, makes sense. I remember seeing something about the inordinate number of stakes level horses that have Northern Dancer somewhere in their bloodline. I think it was like 80% or something!

I also wonder if track conditions plays a factor. Are the tracks harder in order to make them faster, so that the times are better? I wouldn't be surprised.

[red]

ok, i know i wasn't going to watch anymore horse racing

but WOW

big brown is a freak, jockey never even touched him the whole race. and i've never seen a horse pull away that fast that quick. and he looks like he can keep going

we might see another complete blowout like secretariat in the belmont. which to me is the most dominating win in sports history

[HarveyWallbangers]

ok, i know i wasn't going to watch anymore horse racing

You made it all the way to the next big race before watching again.