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What a tragic end... I think it just goes to show these horses are too young to be raced so hard. They really need to let Throughbreds and Quarter horses mature more before they are ridden so hard.

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Interesting, I've never heard of synthetic dirt. Today was just surreal. Dh and I kept watching the replays to see if we could tell when she might have been injured, but it must have been after the finish. Which of course, by then, all camera's were focused on Big Brown.

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What a tragic end... I think it just goes to show these horses are too young to be raced so hard. They really need to let Throughbreds and Quarter horses mature more before they are ridden so hard.

 

Oh I so totally agree! That's the first thing I said to dh when the tv announcer relayed that Eight Belles, that lovely, valiant filly, was lying on the track. My first thought was it must have been some catastrophic event like a stroke or massive heart attack because racehorses don't just lie down. What a tragic end-- those bodies are WAAAY too young to have those kinds of massive stresses placed upon them.

 

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Thanks for posting the article. Dh and I never saw the blimp shot. We kept asking each other "how come they arent' showing the horse that's down?" I think the network dropped the ball on the coverage, like they didn't care. It's just sad.

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I agree that the breeders are breeding ever more delicate horses. However the horses today are raced far more lightly than the horses 50-70 years ago. Today a top horse may race in it's lifetime far fewer times than earlier horses raced in one season.

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