I am reading all of this mess about people and their sick comments about horses and breaking down.
As a longtime racing fan, it's really sickening to read the garbage most people are typing out here. Not only we should thank the horses for running for our enjoyment, but for the owners who goes deep into their pocket to make an investment since the mid 1980's that will not allow them the same business write offs for loses as in the past.
Because of that most people do not have 6 month or a year to prepare a horse for the track. This is one of the reasons you are seeing many horses breaking down. While the tracks could be held blamed for the breakdowns of some horses.
I think back to one of the greatest breeders of all time; Mr. Paul Mellon, he believed you could not get top race horses by breeding for speed. His last top runner was Sea Hero and if you remembered he bloodline screamed stamina. While Sea Hero was not a great horse by today's standard, he could not win the Lexington at 1 1/16 but he won the Derby and Travers both at 1 1/4.
You look at most of the horses breaking down today, many are out of speed ball milers/sprinters. Most are retired by an age 3 or 4 when in the past, that was when most were making it to stake races.
I think back to The Green Monkey...the owners paid 16 Million for a horse out of Grand Reward and a Roar unraced mare. His breeding was not something that was a knockout bloodlines. But when you are seeing in-breeding within 3 generation on many of the sires today...soundness will become a problem.
We all have a duty to this game we all enjoy. This game pay the highest taxes, no write off's for the owners or investors, the tracks are being run by gaming officials instead of true horseracing people. There's no diversity in the running of this game, it's not regulated and to make it really shitty; these poor horses have only a few people watching out for them so they can enjoy a quality life after racing.
As a fan I am begging some of the people on this site to please donate some of your winnings toward the retirement home for the horses, give to the Mc Beth foundation and do something more than just cut down people.
If you have been following Steve show this spring and summer and did not make a profit...get the wax out of your ear and stop being stubborn. If you were able to make a profit, join some the people by watching out for the horses by clicking on a link and donate. Even if it's $10 per month, it's something....sorry I been rambling, but for some reason many things came into my mind when I started typing.
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