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Originally Posted by 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.
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Patty: Your comments are right on and I was about to post exactly the same thing as it pertains to comparing NASCAR, golf, or any other sport to horse racing. Since Sat. we've been hearing all of the comments of mostly non-going track people who compare the rules and regulations of horse racing to any other sport. Sorry, can't happen.
I assume from the terms that you use in your post that you have experience in the thoroughbred racing industry and your comments are well taken. However I believe horse racing is here to stay for a long while--as is NASCAR, golf, baseball, basketball and football.