This entry was posted
on Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
2 Responses to “I’m off to Walmart now, I’ll get back to you on Monday.”
17 1/2 hands, 8 Bells, beautiful horse. One wonders, of her second place finish, what the out come would have been, had her ankle(s) not broken before the wire ……
However, the saddest part of Eight Belles’ legacy is that race horses have been bred to have more-and-more fragile leg-bone structures; I fear this will become a more commonplace occurrence in the quest for speed in preference over health for these thoroughbreds…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
17 1/2 hands, 8 Bells, beautiful horse. One wonders, of her second place finish, what the out come would have been, had her ankle(s) not broken before the wire ……
May 4th, 2008 at 10:28 am
However, the saddest part of Eight Belles’ legacy is that race horses have been bred to have more-and-more fragile leg-bone structures; I fear this will become a more commonplace occurrence in the quest for speed in preference over health for these thoroughbreds…