HBO reports on unfortunate fates of slow race horses
Let's put it this way: The segment on this week's "Real Sports" on the fates of thoroughbreds who no longer can get it done on the track is far more graphic than anything NBC chose not to show of Eight Belles' injury at the Kentucky Derby.
Yikes. It reruns at 8 p.m. Friday on HBO, as well as on various other HBO channels at various other times.
Time to become a vegetarian.
I've only bet on two major horse races: Alydar to win the 1978 Belmont and Funny Cide to win the 2003 Kentucky Derby.
Wagered $10 on both occasions. Came out ahead overall.
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C'mon Neil......Fess up....
Somewhere underneath the sawdust at Koot's there's gotta be some of your old Iditarod slips with Herbie Nayokpuk's team as a win and place bet.
Come clean now or I am putting in a call to Mike Gordon to start sifting through 24 years of accumulated floor residue.
Herbie was on AJ McClanahan's beat. I can't see Neil wagering on anything that wasn't complete in less than a day. Except for maybe the Nenana Ice Classic, what with his fixation with the weather.
I missed hitting the Ice Classic by 45 minutes one year.
Damn Chinook winds.
(But the Permanent Fund helped me through my despair....along with a 20 minute visit to the meat rack at Edna Cox's place).
Just keep telling yourself "it tastes like chicken. It tastes like chicken".
I once lost the Nenana Ice Classic by a week.
Ah, the glory days.....
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951860,00.html
yeah well ive got one of those race horses that they said couldnt get it done. after i repaired his heart and mind from the track abuse, hes a winner now, not on a plate.
yeah well ive got one of those race horses that they said couldnt get it done. after i repaired his heart and mind from the track abuse, hes a winner now, not on a plate.