[kingattax]

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Eight Belles is examined on the track after her second-place finish at the 134th Kentucky Derby. She was euthanized after breaking both front ankles. (AP photo / May 3, 2008)

the filly ran one hell of a race. how very very sad

[Eye of Unk]

Seems to happen to humans as well, ask Sid Vicious or for those of you not into Monday night TV wrestling do a google search.

[martin_fierro]

She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles, trying to please her jockey, trainer, owners and all the people in the crowd, the sheiks, oilmen, entrepreneurs, old money from the thousand-acre farms, the handicappers, men in bad sport coats with crumpled sheets full of betting hieroglyphics, the julep-swillers and the ladies in hats the size of boats, and the rest of the people who make up thoroughbred racing.

[Hot Tabasco]

I used to love watching the Kentucky Derby and marvel at the horses involved. My first experience with it was when Secretariat was the super horse.......

Then with the tragedy of Barbero and now Eight Belles, I am grateful that I was engaged in yard work when yesterday's derby took place because I had every intention of watching it. As it stands, I am seeing the still photos which are tear jerking in itself and I don't know how to deal with it.

On one hand I realize it is a business for the industry of horse racing and on the other hand, it is a hobby for the owners who deal with the obvious expendable commodity of horses, albeit expensive.

Is it a necessary part of our society? I don't know.....

Can we live without horse racing? Probably but I'm not the person to judge.

About all I can say is given what has happened this weekend and two years ago, it is unlikely I will set aside time to watch this event in future years..........

[buck jarret]

Horse racing isn’t pointless. Money is the point.

[TexanToTheCore]

Sorry to see this horse euthanized. Which is why I don’t like the skinny little racing breeds and go for the heavy forelegged types. Much more useful over the long haul