Have you ever thought about.....

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

..... quitting?

I'm just wondering. I almost did, after Horatio Nelson. Didn't care anymore, sobbed for days, wondered how people were going about their lives happy. I wanted to scream DON'T YOU PEOPLE REALIZE WHAT HAPPENED?

I know some heard the Second of June news and were devastated. Lost in the Fog, Saint Liam, Electrocutionist, too many lately. We all take each death a certain way but some are harder for each of us.

I have a friend who quit following the sport after Warrsan died. She's since come back, just like I did, but it took a while.....

So tell me..... have you ever quit and by that I mean temporarily? Have you ever felt like you can't take much more of it?

Just wondering. So many lately..... a hard sport to love at times.

For me it was when Go For Wand broke down in the Breeder's Cup Distaff. Watching her struggle to her feet, stumble a couple more steps and go down again, did me in completely. Then there was the owner with Go For Wand on the track, the filly's head in her lap. I think I shouted I HATE THIS!! before bursting into tears.

It didn't help that another horse (Northern Wolf?) had suffered a heart attack a couple races earlier, in the middle of the Sprint, which was going to be his last race. There was some sort of nice story about that horse with regard to the connections, but I don't remember it.

I seriously considered giving up the sport that day, but of course couldn't do it.

--Dunbar