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.
I remember when Ruffian got hurt. It was upsetting...
You seemed like a pretty big fan at the start of the thread when we all had high hopes. Not seeing where in the first fifty or so posts you indicated so much disdain for the sport.
We're all disappointed and some are broken hearted about this turn of events. But there is always risk in sport, and this reminds us of that, it doesn't mean the sport is never worth the risk.
"The close ups of him coming out of the gate at the start of the race seem to show that he was already tender in that leg."
I'm a relative novice at this, but I would agree with that. (No Holiday Inn last night, but I did have $$ on Bluegrass Cat to win and place in the Derby.)
Pray for barbaro, he's not out of the woods.
Can you at least take a moment to be thankful that no jockey was permanently injured today?
I used to think that way about sled dog races until I got to see my first one right up close. The dogs love it; racehorses are the same, they live to run and there it is. They'll run until they can't.