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Ferdinand, 'Death Of A Derby Champ'(1986 Derby Winner, 1987 Horse-of-the-year, Slaughtered)
KEYT3 TV Santa Barbara ^
| May 23, 2006
| KEYT3, staff
Posted on 07/25/2006 8:06:02 PM PDT by carlo3b
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I am just speechless..
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:06:05 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
To: carlo3b
A related story.. ""Horse meat suppliers defend industry at congressional hearing""..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672251/posts
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:08:10 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: carlo3b
A horse is a cow, is a chicken, is a pig, is a fish,...is a commodity.
This is just more shameless grandstanding.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:10:58 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: carlo3b; HairOfTheDog; girlangler
Odd story, though I don't have a problem with people eating horse.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:12:13 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until its free.)
To: rottndog
Couldn't disagree with you more. It would seem to me that if the horse was good enough to win the Derby, thereby winning loads of money for his owners, he should have been allowed to spend his senior years in a nice pasture.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:14:24 PM PDT
by
Shannon
To: carlo3b
The Keck family, Claiborne Farms, should be ashamed, not to have made provisions for this horse after hearing it was exported to Japan.. It is no secret what the Japanese do with unprofitable racehorses.. When he retired from racing, to stud he had earned nearly $4,000,000 for his owner, certainly enough for a pasture and grave..
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:15:42 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: carlo3b
It is an animal that has outlived its usefulness and it is a good thing that it could close the loop and provide sustenance for people. It is the way of nature and not to be abhorred.
We will all feed the worms one day, fulfilling our place in the food chain. So it is and so shall it ever be.
P.S. I am a horse lover, so don't anyone get on your high horse.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:16:12 PM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
To: carlo3b
To: carlo3b
Ferdinand was not a success as a stallion, and Japan is not exactly a land of wide-open spaces. They slaughter their excess horse population.
This is old news in the horse industry. Many top horses now sold overseas as stallions are now sold with a buy-back clause to repatriate them in their old age or should they fail as stallions.
Gato del Sol was returned to Kentucky from Germany by his breeder, Arthur Hancock.
Ferdinand is by no means unique. Exceller met the same fate in Sweden.
The problem of what to do with horses no one wants to feed any longer is an agonizing one for anyone who loves these animals--but you cannot feed them all, and not all of them are suitable as backyard pets, even if there was enough of a pet niche for them.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:17:16 PM PDT
by
RSteyn
To: Shannon
It would seem to me that if the horse was good enough to win the Derby, thereby winning loads of money for his owners, he should have been allowed to spend his senior years in a nice pasture. Except he didn't win the Derby, or loads of money, for the owners who sold him for slaughter.
The Japanese stud farm had purchased him as a sire, but he proved worthless for this purpose. To his Japanese owners, he was an unperforming asset -- literally worth more dead than alive.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:18:24 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: HairOfTheDog
Already being posted about here:Thanks, I know, see my post #2
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:19:08 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: carlo3b
Elmer's Glue futures rising as we speak...
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:21:12 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: carlo3b
How was your steak tonight?
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:21:58 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: rottndog
A race horse is a beutiful animal. So is a deer.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:23:14 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: RSteyn
Ferdinand is by no means unique. Really, ..a..exactly how much had you, or your offspring earned before you were 5, or in your lifetime.. :)
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:23:30 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: RobbyS
Show me a deer that has won the Kentucky Derby, and I will give it a home, and a plot of land..
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:26:06 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
("Leave the gun, take the cannolis")
To: rottndog
I don't know.
Work animals are different, and this horse worked for and enriched its owners.
Had it been sick, injured, etc., then I would understand.
Some earn their keep, though. This horse had earned more than enough to be respectfully kept.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:27:25 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Supporting the troops means praying for them to WIN!)
To: carlo3b
What's next? Showing Bambi before a cogressional hearing on the banning of venisen?
To: Shannon
Couldn't disagree with you more. It would seem to me that if the horse was good enough to win the Derby, thereby winning loads of money for his owners, he should have been allowed to spend his senior years in a nice pasture.Well that's nice. I say, if it can't stud well, eat it. This ain't a charity.
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posted on
07/25/2006 8:29:45 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: carlo3b
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
Why? Your mouth full of great tasting healthy lean protein? Neeiigghhhh!!!!!
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