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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 12:19 AM
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Strangest Horse race ever at the Kentucky Derby this year.
Edited on Sun May-04-08 12:22 AM by mac2
We had a party and had peach mint juleps. We watched the race on our TV. My two choices won first and second place...ya. I won a $5 bet. Big Brown came in first place. Second place went to a filly named Eight Bells.

Female horses such as Eight Bells are rare. They said she was a strong, big horse for a female. The track did seem rather full of sand or something. The horses were full of sand/dirt as they ran.

Then I started to think about that race as not ringing true. When something seems amiss it usually is.

They announced Hillary Clinton chose Eight Bells to win since it was a female.

I heard the owner might scratch and then I saw she was in the race.

Something happened to Eight Bells outside the camera view after she crossed the finish line. She ran a ways and then out of camera view. They later showed her down and horse ambulance on the way. Then they said, she might be all right. Then they killed her in a very short time since she had broken both front legs (don't know how it happened since it was out of the camera view). the owner could not be reached for comment. How could that happen out of view of the cameras after the race was over? Is that not suspicious?

I'm very suspicious of all the symbolism in this country since Neo Cons are constantly thinking of ways to ruin our lives and create fear. They are after all a Mafia. Or the same con as a Mafia insurance fraud.

What do you think? Big Brown (Obama) and Eight Bells (Clinton) running against one another with Big Brown winning many lengths ahead and Eight Bells being put down with two broken front legs? Not once did they show the "accident" of jockey falling or the horse on camera.

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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 08:44 AM
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1. Well, I think Obama Maniacs are really reaching for ways to put
down Hillary. Really was that necessary?

And Eight Bells broke both front legs as she was coming to a stop after the race. It is a tragedy for the horse and its owners but to try and make political hay out of it just shows show pathetic politics has become today.
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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 12:18 AM
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2. Racehorses strain every bit of their bodies to the limit during a race
The big-hearted filly could have worked itself past natural limits...bone fractures can occur during a race, and weakened bones can break when the maintenance of forward motion changes to resist momentum to stop. Not common at all, but neither is a filly who can race with the big boys.
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