I swear, I am going to stop picking horses in the Derby. We have a family tradition of each choosing a horse through the year before the big race and cheering our choices on. This goes back long before I even knew the boss....Secretariat and Affirmed were both horses I liked back in the day. I picked Barbaro the first time I saw him in the newspaper. We all know how that turned out. This year Liz picked Big Brown and the rest of us didn't pay much attention. Then Alan and I both liked Eight Belles for first and Big Truck second when we saw the actual line up. And it happened again.
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That sounds like fun being able to pick them so early like that!
ReplyDeleteThe loss of Eight Belles has just about done me in for horse racing. I think that these animals are pushed too young and too fast.
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Mon@rch, I have picked PLENTY of losers too. lol We do have a lot of fun with it though. We were just watching a rerun of Alydar vs Affirmed and I could remember the Belmont stretch call like it was yesterday...we didn't even have a TV at that time and listened to it on the radio of my bright orange '72 Chevy pick up.
ReplyDeleteosudvm, I am beginning to feel the same way. I have read that this may be because so many horses descend from Native Dancer who was frail. Dunno if it is true, but I sure am sick of watching horses break down. Dang.
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My stomach churned when I read of Eight Belles, just as it has bothered me with the others. Sad day.
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