Anyone see Jeff Gilooly in the area?
Posted on 05/26/2006 8:17:39 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Barbaro was definitely injured before the start of the race. I can't believe the number of people who have not gone back and watched the NBC broadcast tape which shows this. The tape after he broke through the gate clearly shows him trotting on three legs and holding the right rear leg up and he hops along...BEFORE the race.
You mean a plane didn't really fly into the horse's leg during the race?
LOL. Actually, it was a Predator drone...
Anyone see Jeff Gilooly in the area?
I don't know much about horses, but I do know human nature. Barbaro wasn't going to be scratched from the race unless one of his legs actually fell off.
*ping*
I get nervous when I see a grassy knoll.
I read that even if Barbaro survives, he's very unlikely to be a successful stud because his rear legs won't be able to support his weight when he mounts the mare. Jockey Club rules require that only natural insemination is used for thoroughbreeds bred to race.
Anyone know why that is? I don't see why they wouldn't allow artificial insemination. DNA tracing can protect against fraud. What could be the reason?
Huh? Can this be translated into English?
The truth is, every instinct a horse has tells him to hide any sign of weakness or injury, and the human beings in this case had next to no ability to be omniscient about anything that might have been wrong. We'd like to be, but we aren't.
One aspect I haven't seen discussed, besides the human desire to see that Barbaro ran this race even after the false start, is that the OTHER horses and jockeys already in the gate are a risk of serious injury that only increases the longer they have to stand in the gate. Strong horses in small spaces, expecting to hear a bell the thunder of the start at any moment are dangerous, and there is a very real need to get the race started ASAP once the first horse is loaded. They couldn't take all day to make this decision, and instincts told them to check mostly for sign of injuries to the front end that would have had contact with the gate.
Only with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight and all the time in the world to think about it, can we analyze these judgments now. That's my take on it.
The arguments against AI are prevention of fraud, prevention of unintended defects in the ability breed naturally, and the importance to diversity in the gene pool of limiting any one horse's impact to that which he can do naturally.
Some breeds to allow it, but I'm not sure they are smarter.
I'm betting that NBC did have a camera on him during this and that they were running tape on it as they normally would.
If it was so clear, don't you think others would have seen that? I didn't.
Dont ask, dont tell.
;-)
The video that shows him hopping was one from a replay of the gate-breaking incident which was shown 5-10 minutes after the race on NBC.
I'm not a vet but I watched the horse going back to the gate and I saw no signs of lameness, much less the horse being three legged lame. I think the consipiracists (if there is such a word), just love to eat this stuff up.
Not even the announcers noticed it, but if you are watching the leg, you can't miss it.
If you have access to a link, post it. Otherwise, I'll say it's preposterous to say you "can't miss it" on a peice of tape that's been watched and rewatched by lots of learned people since last weekend. None of them have reported this.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2000620
NEW YORK May 24, 2006 (AP)— Preakness winner Bernardini will not run in the Belmont Stakes, another blow to the final race of the Triple Crown series.
Dubai's Sheik Mohammed, who operates Darley Stud, made the decision to rest Bernardini.
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