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Old 08-14-2008, 03:53 PM
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The special on ESPN portreyed eventing in a totally different way. Its not like the deaths and injuries are not happening at the top level. This years Rolex was horrific. Ya'll can say whatever you want, I'm just saying, if I ever have a daughter.. the only way she'd get involved in Eventing is over my dead body.

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/135159.html

http://hitsusa.com/blog/330/horse-jumping-death/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...try-event.html


these are just some of the top articles that come up when you search for "horse eventing death" on Google. All considered very good event riders.. I didnt keep clicking too depressing.


I could go on and on with the articles. **** that ****.

You sound exactly like the people that have no direct contact with horse racing, but read articles and have thus determined that TB horse racing is a horribly abusive bloodbath industry that exploits and kills horses for money every day.
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