"Jockey"

[Riot]

Guess it didn't work using crashes to show the razor-edge of danger a jockey walks on every single race. Too distracting to viewers worrying rather about the animal involved.

Who was the race writer that wrote, a couple years ago, that nobody should be allowed through a racetrack turnstile unless they were carrying $200 to drop at the windows that day? Anybody remember that, I'd like to re-read it.

[Merlinsky]

I wonder if Santa Anita said they could only film if they agreed not to show spills where the horse brokedown and had to be euthanized? Someone might've had the sense to bar that. I mean it's not like Animal Planet's entitled to show it, SA's private and AP's not a news channel.

About NASCAR and the wrecks, I don't think it's like hockey where people get excited about fights. When there's a wreck, a lot of fans get upset cuz if their driver isn't in it, maybe his chances got compromised by it. Believe me a lot of them know where he needs to finish to not lose a spot in the points system and if some loser knocks them out of it by wrecking, the fans swear a blood oath to hate them for life.

[FGFan]

As a queen of lobbying against PETA and almost any animal RIGHTS (please note key word rights, I absolutely support animal welfare)...I truly thought I would hate this show, especially after the commercials.

However I am quite pleasantly surpised with the outcome. Every horse that fell, got up and ran away. I thought this was going to be bunny huggers haven(bunny huggers=animal rights nuts)...to advocate yet another agenda to bring about the end of horse racing. It wasn't.

I have to disagree that this was a disparging show on the industry, breathing a great sigh of relief....maybe from an insiders view it was lacking and may not attract people to come to watch and bet. But it did not show as it a cruel and inhumane sport. I am relieved after watching the first 2 episodes, we shall see at it develops, but it seems the concentration is really on the jockeys and not horses breaking down.

Unfortunately there are no politcal groups that reap millions of dollars on the exploitation of humans, just animals..so the drama of jocks being hurt just doesn't create an agenda for the animal rights nuts.