Need to vent...

[GenuineRisk]

... Normally I really, really like Salon.com's articles, but this one on Barbaro was most annoying...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/08/01/barbaro/

Am I the only person who gets irritated with the "poor helpless animals" line of thinking because it seems that, for all of the intended concern for racehorses, that non-racing people seem to think horses are stupid? I got into it a bit with one of the letter writers on Salon's site, who thinks that jockeys are the only athletes involved in the sport...