I know, you seem to think you know everything there is to know immediately and without being there... Did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night? Seriously... All any of us know is what ~might~ be.
I know people love to make early assumptions and run with them, but it's not my thing.
hopefully, God will see fit to allow Barbaro the pleasure of some number of fillies greater than 72 IN THIS LIFETIME....
Not at all. I only know what I saw. Period. No need to get huffy just because my opinion is harsher than yours about what happened and about the safety record of the sport.
Ruffian, Go For Wand, Barbaro and so many, many others. Somewhere along the line I stopped seeing it as a sport and started seeing it as something cruel. If you find objection in that, just chalk it up to my shattered illusions and let it go.