[Patty55]

I didn't see the race but from what I've read/heard CA Chrome was injured out of the starting gate.

To compare this "sport" to NASCAR or golf is IMO just wrong. If you push too hard in NASCAR you end up with what, a blown engine? Push too hard for the triple crown in racing you have Barbaro.

I was at the Belmont when Charismatic broke down, haven't been since, will never go back. To me the entire thing is sickening. The betting is sickening, you want to gamble put your money on a hand of cards, play a slot machine, buy a lotto ticket but don't bet on the life of a living animal.

After Barbaro was put down Bo Derek was on a talk show (maybe Larry King) and she said she'd been to the winners circle many times and the horses don't have a mark on the. You know what, maybe she should have walked a little further to the losers circle... saw the scars from pin firing, saw the bowed tendons, the horses standing in buckets of ice.

This is nothing like NASCAR or golf.