[GPK]

Originally Posted by satan's twin

While not really a student of the equine sciences, I have had my moments at the track over the years where I was able to fool a novice race goer or two with an interesting factoid or a lesser known nugget of information. As a little kid, I thought I was impressing the hell out of the adults at the track by being one of the few people there that could identify the gender of the horses. Little did I know that most people had been let in on this 'secret' well before they ever got to a race track. It is surprising then to read today that as Sumwon parades around the grounds at Churchill on her morning jaunts, so many of the people on the backstretch have to be corected and told that the big COLT is, in fact, a big Filly.

Either many of the bleary-eyed backstretch workers were up way too late the previous evening cramming for their college physics exams OR many of the backstretch workers couldn't spell C-A-T if you spotted them the C. (If memory serves correctly, I believe GPK had a similar problem at Saratoga this past summer. Kev was able to inspect exactly half of the animals there 'up close and personal' by walking under them without ever brushing his head against their underbelly. When he attempted to do the same with the male horses he repeatedly got smacked in the face by the dangling apparatuses found under these animals. I didn't know if he kept doing it because he was 'special', because he was from North Carolina and didn't know better or because he just truly enjoyed it.) As if the racing industry doesn't have enough to worry about, consider this. As long as the backstretch workers continue to have problems identifying the sex of the horses they are caring for, headhunters will continue to raid America's racetracks as they prove to be fertile ground for recruiting the future generation of America's carnival workers.

GFY Barney...


That was some seriously funny sh*t though...