re: Derby Hopefuls for this year?

You STILL mad at me????

i get pretty upset when people make ignorant comments about a sport they know nothing about


my filly is going to the track soon, but she won't make me rich by any means...

so am i more of an a-hole for doing something she was bred to do and not making $ off of it?

thank god i haven't personally seen any put down yet, but i'm not sure. i guess the gunshot could always go wrong in some way and cause the horse some awful suffering. don't they usually give a paralyzing shot before the actual euthanasia? i'm not sure...

a horse that i rode for about 8 years had to be put down a few months ago. i went to meet my friend at her house and get her on the trailer to take her to the vet school (we couldn't get a vet to come out ). I got as far away from the room as possible before they could do it.

i have another friend who had to put 2 down this year. the first one was a bigger horse and it took a little while (she said 10 seconds). the second horse was a little smaller and it was instant. he still had half a carrot in his mouth.

if it's up to me i'd choose needle because it's going to work.

oh, we will

this is my favorite time of year

i can't find anything either. did see that Archx3 has officially been retired from racing after a successful surgery.

LINK

also:

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COMMA TO THE TOP (Bwana Charlie), who finished last of 19 after pressing the pace for the first mile, suffered a chip in his left front ankle during the race and was "doing OK" at Churchill's Barn 42 Sunday morning, according to trainer Peter Miller.

"He ate up last night and he wasn't tired after the race," Miller said. "He didn't drink any water or anything. But he's just a tick off; you can see it. On a scale of 1 to 5, he's about a 1. Not much, but he isn't quite right."

Miller said he'd schedule a surgery for his horse to remove the chip with Dr. Wayne McIlwrath of Colorado State University, one of the most respected veterinarians in the country.

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PANTS ON FIRE (Jump Start) didn't suffer any fractures or chips from his ninth-place run in the Derby, but George and Lori Hall's homebred "bled enough to say it was significant" from the exertion put forth in his effort, trainer Kelly Breen said Sunday morning.

"One of the things we're working on is his immune system," Breen said. "We were staying on top of his lungs coming into this race so it's a bit of a setback to say we have to work on him. Coming off a mile-and-a-quarter race it's tough to say he's not fit now, but you have to start from the inside out and heal him up. He'll probably be going back to the track soon but he'll just be doing it nice and easy."

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probably no Preakness for either one of those colts

hope they both run well again

I figured Archx3 was done. The real money is in the breeding. So really PJ should be mad at breeders for making horses breed for money. It is so horrible.

RA and Curlin?