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Originally Posted by MaTH716
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In the last twenty minutes I've read that Sand Cove who was a really really nice horse died of laminitis and Jungle Wave of colic.
I'm bringing these up because I know you know, all of us know, how ****ing many horses are gone because of these horribly dreaded words.
Research costs money, retirement costs money, all the charities need our help.
Many of us give but for some of us it isn't much, isn't as much as we wish we could,some cannot give anything at all but gladly would if they were in a position to...
So my friend I just want to remind people that a portion of every single item sold on that site is given to charity.
Would I buy it? No.
If it were one of the silly, slow borderline failure race horses that I love (and there are an awful lot of those
) ?
Sure.
He has fans and it is a nice thing to have for people who like him, I'd imagine.
Good for them. I hope they sell a ton of them.
It's ridiculous to use the name Citation in the same paragraph BUT for some people he is a blue collar, present day cultural icon (okay that word is a littl eover the toip but I'm making a point!).
So what if they're people who don't follow racing like we do. Let them have their hero. We know how he rates but there's never anything wrong with rooting for the little guy and finding creative ideas for the raising of necessary funds.
