Now Quality Road refuses to board plane

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

There are actually people on Facebook saying he is on cocaine.

Really?

face/palm

Teh stupid, it burns.

I really felt for the gate crew- talk about a no-win situation. They've got a very expensive animal absolutely freaking on them, and 13 other very expensive animals with the potential to start freaking any second. It's well and good for the barn manager to say, oh, they started out doing the right thing, petting him and reassuring him, but then just moved on to severe things too fast, but how long were they supposed to pet him at the expense of the other horses' nerves? And the gate can't scratch him themselves, can they? Even if they could, then they've got an angry owner and angry bettors to deal with. I thought they did the best they could in an impossible circumstance- one of the last horses to load freaking out right before the biggest race of the year.

Though I'd like to put that footage on my iphone so I can bring it up whenever a well-meaning friend says,"But isn't it mean to make horses run around in a circle?" and don't believe me when I tell them it's very hard to get a 1000 pound animal to do something he doesn't want to do.

(And then when they ask if he was on cocaine I will face/palm again.)