Jesus, if that’s how they treat the second place finisher, I’d hate to be the horse that came in third.
(But seriously, there’s something wrong with a sport that breeds a fatal genetic flaw into its top athletes.)
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Horses are my friends! They should euthanize dogs instead! Especially Republican dogs that commit voting fraud!
P.S., I scooped you on this news in the “Bloody Oil” comment thread. I posted it an hour before you did, neener neener!
We didn’t treat the second-place finisher in the governor’s race that way … I’m just sayin’ …
Roger Rabbit News Quiz
This is a toughie, so put on your thinking cap! Even you wingnuts who never pick up a newspaper have a chance to get the right answer — with some dumb luck. Ready?
Which second-place finisher got euthanized?
[ ] 1. The noble horse
[ ] 2. The ignominious whiner
Hint: Life ain’t fair!!
why do they kill the horses? can’t the thing hobble around in a cast for a month or two, or
is it kind like ideal republican world – people who can’t produce are turned into solyent green?
the main thing I know about horses is that they aren’t cows, deer, buffaloes, or canaries or crocodiles …
why snuff ’em for a broken leg?
Horses have to be able to move around so that they get circulation to their feet. Else the tissue under the hoof dies. Laminitis, what finally killed Barbaro. You just can’t immobilize a horse for long enough for a serious break in one leg, (and Eight Belles broke both front ankles, apparently), even if they are lucky enough to avoid infection.
By the way, Secretariat, from the Nasrullah bloodline, also had a genetic defect. He was necropsied after death and they discovered that his heart was 25% larger than normal. In his case, it made him able to pump more blood, and he was an immensely strong horse because of it. I do believe that Seattle Slew (who has both Native Dancer and Nasrullah bloodlines through his sire; Nasrullah bloodlines also through is dam) may also have had a larger than normal heart.
I still remember watching Secretariat run his Triple Crown races. He was truly a dominant horse – he won the Belmont by 31 lengths, finishing the 1.5 miles faster than any other horse in history (on a dirt track -this record still stands); and in the Derby, he ran each succeeding quarter faster than the preceding one, finishing in under two minutes.
I was getting excited again by horseracing when Barbaro came around, because horses that might approach Secretariat or Seattle Slew are so far in between, but his breakdown in the Preakness was too much, and I haven’t been able to watch a race since.
#6 – thanks mucho.
I never got the horse bug, or the horse racing bug, so … this is all a mystry to me.
of course, that doesn’t mean I advocate that the rest of the world should live like I do — the economy would collapse, except for organic farmers, goodwill, and a new inexpensive reliable car every 10 or 15 years. I don’t want to live in a barter subsistence economy.
bob.
That was the horse Hillary had Chelsea at the track to bet on for PR reasons. Because she was a filly, and Hillary has to play the vagina angle at every opportunity.
I can hardly wait for the Clinton Machine reaction. Maybe they will blame a sniper.
Well – busdrivermike – it wasn’t such good PR. I mean, the horse finished second, broke down and had to be shot. Not a very good bet to make….
If you want to watch an exciting race, go watch Secretariat run the Preakness. As in the Derby, he broke from the gate dead last, ran around the entire field in the backstretch, and went on to win by 2.5 lengths. He also had a record there; the Preakness is the shortest of the Triple Crown races, at 1 and 3/16 miles, he ran what is still one of the fastest times, but due to a clock malfunction, they still dispute what his actual time was; most claim it was in fact 1:53.40, which a couple of horses since have matched (including Seattle Slew) but not beaten.
Anyway, this is an exciting race to watch, and you can see how poor Sham (a horse who would surely have won the Triple Crown if Secretariat had been a year younger or older) just can’t reach him, no matter how hard he tries, while Secretariat just stretches out and increases his lead, and Ron Turcotte doesn’t even use the crop; I think at that point this horse was responding to the cheering of the crowd. That’s the only way I could explain what he did at Belmont, finishing so fast even though the next closest horse was almost a football field(!) back.
Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby also a very exciting race.
There’s also something wrong with a nation that doesn’t euthanize someone like Terapon Adhahn for kidnapping, raping and killing 12-year-old Zina Linnik last year.
Marijuana march was today. I heard it was temporarily disrupted when a cheetos truck happen to drive across their path.
@12 See #1.
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Goldy
You miss the point.
This is clear evidence for ID. Like other evidence for intelligent design, the evidence here shows that the Breeder is malign.
#6: Secretariat also had a stride that was about 18″ longer than usual, to go with his huge heart and nearly flawlessly balanced gait.
I am not all that good at it, but if you YouTube any of his races, you can spot an immensely beautiful stride. I prefer the Belmont to the Preakness — “Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine . . . he’s almost a sixteenth of a mile ahead of the rest of the horses . . . .”
#9: Sort of a ghoulish answer, but she died after crossing the finish line, so she was credited as having run 2nd. Therefore it was a good bet. She paid 10.60 and 6.40. and her owners made 400k.
Do they do like Spain after the bullfights and eat the horses they kill?
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Yes Michael, the horse meat goes to those special restaurants the lefties frequent…
re 18: Haw! Haw! Haw! Lefties frequent horsemeat restaurants! Haw! Haw! Haw!
At first glance, the title seems to say that eight Southern debutantes were euthanized on a horse track. That would go well with the horse steaks — at least, at the restaurants that I frequent.
Glad you like my joke headless. At least you got the meat of my argument.
It’s just more gristle for my mill.
@18 Wrong. Horse meat ends up as dog food — then they feed it to Republican curs.
Hey, here’s an equine joke for all you racing aficionadoes.
After the big race, one of the losing horses goes into a local tavern and bellies up to the bar.
The bartender, trying to get some conversation going, says: “Hey horse, why the long face?”
(It helps to be looking at the horse in order to get it.)
I am a senior level professional and was at work today when I saw the news about Eight Belles being put down. I am so sick to my stomach that I cannot work. Someone needs to be held accountable! This is sickening and needs to be stopped. I have never been so outraged. All I can think is “why”? What a waste of a precious life. Today, I am embarrassed to be human. I know it may not be ‘politically savvy’ for top news anchors and politicians to make too much of an issue of her murder (tragic death is too kind), but it is the right thing to do. Let’s not let this just be berried in a one sentence line behind 5 paragraphs about the winner. It is just plain ignorant for someone to say, “horse like to run” or “just a bad step”. Wonder if they would be so cavalier if it were them?
Jamie
Portland, Oregon
The triple crown should be banned. These horses, for the most part are too young and immature physically to stand the stress of these races. If you look at the history of horses that participated, too many sustained injuries that prevented them from ever racing again. Some of the greatest names in horse racing were never exposed to these grueling trio of races.