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"Eight Belles" breaks down and is euthanized after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby

Filly "Eight Belles"

 


magellan

For a knowledgable review, read IG's review below. For a sentimental review, read on.

This probably makes me a bit of a chauvinist but I find this story more tragic because Eight Belles was a filly. For a female horse to go out, run for broke, and defeat 18 of the strongest and fastest male horses on the planet, and in the process, run so hard that she goes to her grave... is heartbreaking.
  (4 voted this helpful, 2 funny and 3 agree)



• Review posted on 05/06/2008
• This review has been viewed 39 time(s)

Replies to magellan's review:

REVIEWERREPLY
TeresaG (31)
09/21/2008		I agree ~ it's a sad thing! A very uncaring "business"...as is Dog racing.
irishgit (154)
05/06/2008		Ridge.... its "colts"
irishgit (154)
05/06/2008		I agree. I love this sport, and have ever since I saw it as a very small child. These horse are beautiful, courageous and fiercely competive animals, and the death of any of them under these circumstances is a tragedy. I watched the race, and when she went down, I knew without being told what had happened, and what was likely to happen as a result. Like many a horse before her, she had more heart than was good for her life.
Ridgewalker (64)
05/06/2008		I know very little about horse racing, but I heard an expert...someone who was born into the business...talking on the radio yesterday and this was exactly his claim...that a filly should never have been put into such a large field with male horses (I'm sure there is an equivalent term for filly)...
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