RE: the 2016 trivial drivel thread

[Duchess]

I just read about the two horses dying on Huffington Post website....One had heart attack after the race on his way to the barn. The second one broke his leg and had to be euthanized. I would assume there was higher risk due to muddy track and then there was talk of the drug abuse in horse racing so I made my little comment about how some practices need to be improved in this "sport." Another poster replied saying some horses liked to race and they wouldn't race if they didn't like it. You can't force a horse to race if it doesn't want to race...O.K. I didn't know that. I did not know it was the horse's choice. I just thought she was another Trump supporter.

There's a ton of drug abuse in horse racing, it's sickening. Most of the drugs come out of Canada. You can't develop a test for a drug unless you know what the drug is. All winning horses are tested immediately after racing.

BH, these horses are bred specifically to race, it's in their blood. Bloodlines are everything in horseracing. Every now & then you'll hear of a horse with much success that is basically a nobody, that's an exception to the rule, a lucky strike, it's not the norm. There are also horses with very good breeding who don't make a good racehorse but you find that out long before it would make its way to the racetrack.