What a horse. What a race. Big Brown wins the Preakness.

On May 17, 3:20*pm, dxAce wrote:
What a horse. What a race. Big Brown wins the Preakness.

I can't imagine what the other jockeys are thinking when that horse opens up
in the stretch...

"Dave W." wrote in message
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dxAce wrote in news:482F5A28.F6543DD5
@milestones.com:

What a horse. What a race. Big Brown wins the Preakness.



I second that....an amazing horse.

Jim Driscoll wrote:

I can't imagine what the other jockeys are thinking when that horse opens up
in the stretch...


They are all praying their horses don't fall down, break a bunch of
bones and have to be killed. All in the name of entertainment. Horse
racing is provided by and supplied for inconsiderate fools.



http://www.searchmash.com/search/reacehorse+deaths


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The death of Eight Belles shocked me out of my indifferent, complacent
position.

All the crap in the news about how noble she was, how competitive her
spirit, how great her self-sacrifice… it’s all smug and disgusting
beyond belief, despite the accompanying descriptions of the tears
glistening in the eyes of the various stakeholders. What really happened
was that this horse was forced to run as fast as she could, for reasons
she could not understand and that had nothing to do with her well-being,
and as a direct result, her legs fell apart, and then someone killed her.

That’s it; that’s all there is to it.

http://dablog.rubypal.com/2008/5/4/death-of-a-racehorse
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m II wrote:

Jim Driscoll wrote:

I can't imagine what the other jockeys are thinking when that horse opens up
in the stretch...

They are all praying their horses don't fall down, break a bunch of
bones and have to be killed. All in the name of entertainment. Horse
racing is provided by and supplied for inconsiderate fools.

Inconsiderate fools? Heck, I never realized that you Dumbass Canucks had all that
much to do with horse racing.

Dumbass Canuck and Dumbass Canucks are both copyright 2008 by dxAce.

"Dave W." wrote:

Bart Bailey wrote in news:4833c31a.2453427
@bart.spawar.mil:

In posted on Sat, 17 May
2008 18:20:24 -0400, dxAce wrote: Begin

What a horse. What a race. Big Brown wins the Preakness.

Wait until June 7 and see if we have another triple crown.


Yep...I wouldn't bet against him though.

So many owners apparently did not want to compete against Big Brown at the
Preakness. I just wonder what the thinking may be now that Big Brown has won the
past two races.

We'll have to wait and see at Belmont on June 7, but I do hope that Big Brown
will get to retire and enjoy a great retirement in some very green pastures.