Eight Belles euthanized on track

ImnoMensa

ImnoMensa

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They breed horses for speed and they break easy.

Hillary having a bet on her was probably the kiss of death.

Sad to see an animal euthanised,but it makes you wonder why they dont use that horse stuff on death row killers. It puts them away fast and painless .
 
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Tigerlily

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I love to see horses run, although this one really tugged at my heart. We as people are selfish creatures to raise horses to run, bet on the odds and then shoot them down when they break down. We can fix human ankles, so why not a horses?
 
Fubar

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Tigerlily said:
I love to see horses run, although this one really tugged at my heart. We as people are selfish creatures to raise horses to run, bet on the odds and then shoot them down when they break down. We can fix human ankles, so why not a horses?
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2 yrs ago Barbaro suffered a broken leg in the Preakness that eventually cost him his life-Eight Belles suffered 2 broken front ankles with a compound fracture on the left side....can you imagine what it would have taken to even attempt to save her? There was no way to save her, she didn't have a front leg to stand on.
I applaud the rapid decision to put her down-as much as it broke my heart.
I was cheering her on all the way in hopes she would win.
Damn shame!
RIP 8 Belles
 
ImnoMensa

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Tigerlily said:
I love to see horses run, although this one really tugged at my heart. We as people are selfish creatures to raise horses to run, bet on the odds and then shoot them down when they break down. We can fix human ankles, so why not a horses?
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I guess you dont bother to go to the County Fair to watch the kids show their cattle they raise , and then sell them for the butcher.
Some horses are lucky they win their races ,live in a fine stable and get bred to the best looking studs and mares available. Others break a leg and get euthanised. Breaks of the game.
 
ImnoMensa

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ImnoMensa said:
I guess you dont bother to go to the County Fair to watch the kids show their cattle they raise , and then sell them for the butcher.
Some horses are lucky they win their races ,live in a fine stable and get bred to the best looking studs and mares available. Others break a leg and get euthanised. Breaks of the game.
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Just another thought.. Think of all the unlucky Amish horses that are kept in a crappy stable have to pull a buggy loaded with kids and a trailer load of flowers to market . Sweating and foam hanging off them and tied to a pole at the Food Lion. They get brushed down about once a year and wouldnt know what a horse blanket looked like.

Horses are like people some have breeding and inherit a good life , others work their nuts off and never get a break.
 
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Tigerlily

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ImnoMensa said:
I guess you dont bother to go to the County Fair to watch the kids show their cattle they raise , and then sell them for the butcher.
Some horses are lucky they win their races ,live in a fine stable and get bred to the best looking studs and mares available. Others break a leg and get euthanised. Breaks of the game.
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Yes I have been to the fair and seen the cattle. Last year in Raley's there was a giant picture of a young boy and his prize cow on display in the meat rack. My kids asked who is was, and I told them it was their dinner.
 
Bay_Kat

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PETA requests that Eight Belles jockey Gabriel Saez be suspended

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

Gabriel Saez was riding Eight Belles when she broke both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past the wire. She was euthanized on the track.

PETA faxed a letter Sunday to Kentucky's racing authority claiming the filly was "doubtlessly injured before the finish" and asked that Saez be suspended while Eight Belles' death is investigated.

"What we really want to know, did he feel anything along the way?" PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo said. "If he didn't then we can probably blame the fact that they're allowed to whip the horses mercilessly."
 
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ImnoMensa said:
Just another thought.. Think of all the unlucky Amish horses that are kept in a crappy stable have to pull a buggy loaded with kids and a trailer load of flowers to market . Sweating and foam hanging off them and tied to a pole at the Food Lion. They get brushed down about once a year and wouldnt know what a horse blanket looked like.

Horses are like people some have breeding and inherit a good life , others work their nuts off and never get a break.
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They're beasts of burden... I don't think they mind it, though. :deadhorse
 
Sweet 16

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Bay_Kat said:
"What we really want to know, did he feel anything along the way?" PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo said. "If he didn't then we can probably blame the fact that they're allowed to whip the horses mercilessly."
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Oh Lord, here we go! If the horse had this catastrophic injury prior to crossing the finish line, she never would have crossed the finish line you dolts! Horses can't run on broken ankles which is why she collapsed when and where she did. As for "whipping the horses mercilessly", horses spook easily and many times, the jockey only needs to show them the whip and they take off. I love these idiots pretending to be veterinary and/or racing experts.

MSN has a link to an article explaining why they need to be put down so quickly. So very sad.
 
Bay_Kat

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Sweet 16 said:
Oh Lord, here we go! If the horse had this catastrophic injury prior to crossing the finish line, she never would have crossed the finish line you dolts! Horses can't run on broken ankles which is why she collapsed when and where she did. As for "whipping the horses mercilessly", horses spook easily and many times, the jockey only needs to show them the whip and they take off. I love these idiots pretending to be veterinary and/or racing experts.

MSN has a link to an article explaining why they need to be put down so quickly. So very sad.
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I agree with you. I posted that because I knew it was only a matter of time before they stepped in and started spouting their nonsense.
 
Otter

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Andrew Beyer has a great column on this here

A few key points...

But Eight Belles was a tragic manifestation of a problem that is more pronounced every year. America's breeding industry is producing increasingly fragile thoroughbreds. They may not break down, but they have shorter and shorter racing careers before going to stud to beget even more fragile offspring.
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There are at least two good explanations for this phenomenon. In earlier eras, most people bred horses in order to race them, and they had a stake in the animals' soundness. By contrast, modern commercial breeders produce horses in order to sell them, and if those horses are unsound, they become somebody else's problem. Because buyers want horses with speed, breeders have filled the thoroughbred species with the genes of fast but unsound horses.
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As this change in the breeding world took place, the sport was allowing the use of pain-killers and other medications that are forbidden in most other countries. They allow infirm horses to achieve success, go to stud and pass on their infirmities to the next generation.
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