Posted on 05/26/2006 8:17:39 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Perhaps he ought to change careers from being a jockey to being a soothsayer.
The sport of kings is very strict when it comes to reproduction. AI is a "bad word" and is strictly forbidden in order to register and race horses.Stallion owners are extremely selective with bloodlines when a mare owner requests to breed. Doesn't matter how much the stud fee is, if the stallion owner doesn't see it as a potential good match, no dice.
On artificial insemination within the equine breed, a stallion mounts a mare in heat just like she was the recipient, however, the stallions, shall we say, "investment" is steered into an artificial receptacle for collection. My dad was in the industry most of his life so I got to watch and assist in many couplings. Made for an interesting childhood!
Great post. Thanks.
Thanks... I meant to say "their minds aren't any ~more~ settled and sure, but hopefully folk know what I ~meant~ to say :~D
Thanks for the insult. All I'm saying is watch the tape. I just checked the MSNBC videos and they don't have a video of the gate-crashing event online. Didn't you tape the broadcast?
I didn't insult you, I'm just trying to temper your report that it's 'obvious' since, of all the eyes watching since then you're the only one that's reported seeing this.
I don't have a tape of it, no.
Thanks for the info..I remember reading how nervous first-time stallions are first introduced to a "seasoned" mare..Boy, I wish someone had done that for ME..LOL.....IOW, I gather it's impossible for the stallion to produce semen unless he is in an excited state, and to do that he has to be on two legs..
They do also have mounting contraptions now that stallions learn to think is as good as a mare.
The only thing missing from this story is the phrase "...according to an unnamed source..."
Perhaps we could make this into a Freeper Pajamahadeen call. Ping the Horse List with a request to ask if anyone taped the broadcast. If they did, have them look at the NBC broadcast post-race replays of the gate-crashing incident and run-out and then have them report back on whether or not they see Barbaro do any three-legged gaits. If he did, then Freepers get another feather in their cap. If not, well . . I guess I'll just go mumbling off somewhere repeating "I'm losing my mind. I'm losing my mind." (My apologies if I took your post the wrong way.)
Well, I've already pinged them to this thread once, let's see, before pinging them again, if anyone chimes in that they've either got a link to footage or can report this :~D
I have seen the slo-mo replay of the gate-break run.....by the time Barbaro takes the 3rd or 4th step with the right rear, its abberant form is as evident in the very same ways that it is in the actual race slo-mo before the jockey realizes he is hurt and pulls him up.
>Not even the announcers noticed it, but if you are watching the leg, you can't miss it.<
Hogwash. The horse was moving perfectly.
If he had been staggering the way you describe, he would have been scratched immediately. No rider would have been willing to go forward on a broken down horse, putting themselves at great risk. None of the other riders would have wanted any part of sharing the racetrack with a horse ready to fall down. Nobody would have wanted any part of the liability for the resulting dead or injured riders.
No one observed anything amiss with Barbaro prior to the race.
Here's a rough translation into English.
'If folks knew what really went on in the horse racing industry only fools and rich folks with money to throw away would bet. '
If you are not familiar with the story of Alydar, you should look it up. That's the first thing that comes to mind when I read about a top race horse breaking a leg.
I know it might not be nearly as exciting but I would like to see them run in lanes with no gates:')
I've ridden since I was 6 or 7 years old, and I'm considered to have a pretty good eye for a horse being "off", and I just don't see it. Besides, you can feel it before you can see it, and no jockey in his right mind would ride into a race knowing that the horse was going unevenly.
Nor have I heard this from anyone else. Are you sure you didn't see a snippet of the post-injury film taken out of context?
I've heard about those mounting contraptions but never saw one. I could tell a few stories about how individual stallions liked everything a certain way that would keep lay people in stitches but being its a family board and I wouldn't want to get banned ... Horses are amazing and intelligent creatures and they are as individual as humans.
Danger of course was horses jostling or kicking each other before the start, or horses getting turned around facing the wrong way (Man O' War did that once.)
I'm not sure when the starting gate came into general use, but it must have been fairly recently, especially in England.
Friend of mine had a QH stallion who would not treat it as "just business" - he had to fall in love first. They usually put him and the lady of the moment in adjoining paddocks (with an access road in between) so that they could get acquainted. I'm surprised they didn't have a "perfesser" out there playing mood music on the bordello piano . . .
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