That horse, with no outside urging, kept pace, and advanced a few times. So much fun to watch.
My wife is from the Baltimore area, so she’s very over the “scene”, and I had to wake her up from a nap to get her to watch it.
That horse was alright.
Don't you quietly retire?
But I get why others can’t get in to it.
I want record times, not relative greatness.
box who are instructed to shoot riderless horses.
Or better yet, jockeys who can't hang on for the ride.
Just sayin.
requiring all jockeys to wear seat belts, in advance of the Belmont.
In the Miss Preakness.
as they used to be. I can not imagine all the shady stuff that went down in horse-racing in the past, but at least they’re trying to clean it up now.
I know one of the vets that worked on Secretariat and he swears that he was on the juice. I’m not going to go through the whole story because I might as well insult everybody’s grandmother.
Might get faster if they changed the rules to allow some outside blood into thoroughbreds from other breeds for a while
after a jockey falls , I’ll watch the Grand National
Just let the horses duke it out. Like the greyhounds do.
...whipping each other
Self flagellation seems more appropriate
Greyhounds should have jockeys!
made it"
In the 1930s, greyhound racing was horse racing's less-accomplished, still-ambitious sibling. More carnival spectacle than sport of kings, promoters were forced to think of ways to draw crowds.
The best strategy: monkey jockeys.
See below:
splinternews.com story linked below
would have tossed that monkey in a heartbeat!