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08-27-2006, 11:46 AM
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I think the "broken heart" thing is just a poetic way of saying that it must have been very discouraging to Bluegrass Cat to be working as hard as he was to stay close to Bernardini, while Bernardini was going so easily. None of us made this theory up - Man o' War was considered to have broken John P. Grier's heart in the Dwyer (not that it was necessarily true, but that thought was out there at the time). Also, trainers say all the time that they enter their horses in spots to give them their confidence back.........why would they do that if there was no credence to the theory?
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08-27-2006, 11:52 AM
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some horses are like people, they hate to lose. and some actually pout when they know they didn't win. they're sore losers! lol
the whole thing with getting their confidence back is that horses are herd animals, with an alpha in the herd...everyone else is subordinate to that alpha animal. a horse starts losing, he starts moving himself down the pecking order...so you run against slower, lesser horses, he wins--the lightbulb (hopefully) goes on...'why, i'm the alpha!' is what they hope the horses believes....
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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08-27-2006, 12:39 PM
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... it's known as "anthropomorphism" ... ... attributing human traits to animals.
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