Horseracingwrongs is a PITA.... Drayden Van Dyke is an excellent bugboy, has empathy for his mounts. I don't know the trainer, but Drayden on his way to becoming one of the good guys....
Hi Louise.....I think its like an apprentice rider.... the horse a "10lb bug" rides gets to carry that much less weight ....after a time the break in weight decreases until its gets to zero....its to help make new jockeys competitive as they gain experience ...but Casey can probably explain it better
RIP Noble Causeway the sire of 3 year old Samraat. Noble Causeway's sire was Giants Causeway and his dam was Mimi's Golden Girl, born in 2002 died May 27, 2014. Noble had 18 starts, 3 wins, 6 seconds, and 1 third, career earnings of $360,010. He was euthanized after battling hard against laminitis (which lead to many great racehorses having to be euthanized some being the great Secretariat, Barbaro, & Kip Deville) here is an article on him he was only 12 years old http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/11006968/noble-causeway-sire-samraat-dies
If there is one thing that is going to turn me off from this sport, it is the way these claiming race horses are treated. I've seen some recently raced 4 and 5 times a month because "they can't find enough horses to fill the cards." And they push them and push them until they either die or cannot be retired soundly. It makes me sick.
I've seen two friends on twitter just this week say they aren't going to watch anymore because of the way these particular horses are being treated.
I can't blame your friends for the way they feel, louise. I feel the same way sometimes. Guess I've just accepted the downsides even though they can make me sick and haunt me for a long time.
We'd have to do it within 4 hours. It really bugs me that we all have to suffer, chafing under this new editing limitation time span because of the improper actions of a trouble-maker who has been banned from the Forum and so won't be doing it again. There, that felt good. That's about as ranting as I ever get, usually.
i dont like the forum changes, certain ones. some make sense others seem meh. im looking around and theres COUNTLESS threads that are not being talked in anymore and are not closed out.
bah nvm, this is the horse racing injuries and fatalities thread. people probably think something really bad happened with all the comments now LOL sorry
Wekiva Springs dead at 23. Euthanized after he was found to have cancerous tumors. He was pensioned last year. He was the broodmare sire of the late Turallure.
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http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/11006968/noble-causeway-sire-samraat-dies
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse®istry=T&refno=8554964
I've seen two friends on twitter just this week say they aren't going to watch anymore because of the way these particular horses are being treated.
bah nvm, this is the horse racing injuries and fatalities thread. people probably think something really bad happened with all the comments now LOL sorry
http://www.drf.com/news/wekiva-springs-grade-1-winner-and-pensioned-sire-dies-23