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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on May 5, 2007 17:18:39 GMT -5
I'll be damned..
Street Sense broke the Breeder's Cup Jinx. First colt to ever win the BC Juvinile and the Derby. Incredible run
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on May 5, 2007 17:27:25 GMT -5
Oh yeah, hey England! We got yo girl b! How 'bout a lap dance for the World's Hillbilliest State?
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Post by wrestlesmarks on May 5, 2007 18:13:26 GMT -5
Oh yeah, hey England! We got yo girl b! How 'bout a lap dance for the World's Hillbilliest State? ;D Hell she would fit right in here, we marry our cousins as well.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 5, 2007 19:43:03 GMT -5
I think alot of people are just sad by last year's Kentucky Derby, knowing that the champion last year is dead
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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on May 5, 2007 19:46:03 GMT -5
They have the special on NBC right now. Sitting here just bawling watching it. At least he didn't get the same ending as 1986 Kentucky Derby Winner Ferdinand
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 5, 2007 19:50:28 GMT -5
They have the special on NBC right now. Sitting here just bawling watching it. At least he didn't get the same ending as 1986 Kentucky Derby Winner Ferdinand No, but it was just sad to see what happened in the Preakness and to know that this horse really could have won the triple crown winner
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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on May 5, 2007 20:11:01 GMT -5
Doubt if we'll ever see a triple crown winner again. Too many variables and the horses they're breeding for these days are just disposable cash crops. Grow them big, grow them fast .. but don't make them durable. They have this racing down to such a science and the horses are so finely tuned *rolls eyes* But they still break down left and right. They have these new special tracks with surfaces meant to be easier on a horse's legs, but still they break down left and right.
In the early 1900's to probably the middle of the century, race horses ran multiple times a week and finished careers sound. The great Man O' War raced 21 times. Citation had 45 starts. Secretariat has 21 starts. Alydar raced 26 times. Seattle Slew had 17 starts. Cigar 33 starts.
Barbaro had 7 starts and likely wouldn't have raced beyond the Triple Crown series.
Afleet Alex, the big name horse from a couple years before that raced 12 times
Street Sense has now had 8 starts with probably 2 more. chances are they'll retire him to stud before the BC championship in November or right afterwards.
guess what I'm getting at is.. the horses of yesteryear didn't have the fancy tracks. They didn't have the light racing schedules. They were built and bred to last. They earned their stay in the stud barn by being a durable and long winning race horse as opposed to a flash in the pan, win a couple big races and get yanked back into their plastic bubbles before they break down and are unable to be used in the breeding shed.
They need to breed back in the soundness instead of the fleet of foot for these horses to last.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 5, 2007 20:14:37 GMT -5
I think the lighter schedule is also a way for them to hopefully keep the horse healthier.
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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on May 5, 2007 21:09:21 GMT -5
I think the lighter schedule is also a way for them to hopefully keep the horse healthier. That's just it, they didn't have a lot of soundness issues early in the last century and those horses raced several times a week. Trainers know that todays horses won't hold up to that, even on the new polytrack race courses.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 5, 2007 22:13:16 GMT -5
You do know that alot of horses died young back then and this new lighter schedule is for the benefit of the horses.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 5, 2007 22:15:09 GMT -5
Goodbye horses.....
yeah that's all I got.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 6, 2007 0:19:22 GMT -5
Anyway, I would say that we probably will not see another Triple Crown winner for a long time. Barbaro actually had as good of a shot as anyone, but we all know how that turned out.
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