Horse racing doesn't need a Saturday tragedy
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Seriously, will this ever stop? ESPN never fails to make up a good headline Horse racing doesn't need a Saturday tragedy Looking at the preseason predictions Someone swat at NFL owners with a rolled up newspaper Brian Estridge, please stop. You're embarrassing yourself Perception of hockey continues to be dumb Categories
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Is it just me or is Saturday's Belmont Stakes shaping out to be a potential disaster for the "sport" of horse racing? We just watched Eight Belles get put down at the Kentucky Derby, the first time a horse was put down at the race in a long time. That already has the nation on the fence about horse racing. Now we have a Triple Crown candidate, Big Brown, going into the Belmont with a cracked hoof that his shady trainer insists isn't going to be a problem at the race. If people go into Saturday expecting to see history and end up seeing tragedy, it will be such a swing of emotion that horse racing, or horse whipping as I like to call it, may never recover. And frankly, I hope it doesn't. I'm not wishing any ill on Big Brown - far from it. But I think something needs to convince America that horse racing is an outdated and often cruel undertaking. Everybody keeps pointing out that horses run on tiny ankles. Weeell, doesn't that suggest that maybe we shouldn't be forcing them to run as fast as they can on them by whipping them? I'm not trying to press any large-scale hippy green message on anyone, but seriously, the very mindset of those who engage directly with horse racing is disturbing to me on many levels. I believe hell is an ironic place. I strongly believe hell's punishment for those who engage directly in horse racing will be getting ridden by much smarter, larger animals for the rest of eternity. |
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Posted by Britt @ 4:44 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008
Haha. I can only hope that Satan has a sense of humor and that is indeed the punishment for the cruel jockey.
It seems obvious to me that risking horse injury or (gasp) horsey death is not worth continuing the "sport" of horse racing.
But, unfortunately, common sense is no match for the ego of man...