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[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

I know you're not trying to start a problem with me, Federico... just so you know that I know that.

I'll try to answer.

Should he be retired? I have no idea. I was shocked to seem him entered here. That's the reason for the thread.

Now that he won? Who knows... BUT if there's a fund that's set up to help him damned right I'm for it.

The other horses...

This is silly and it all goes without saying.

You know, anyone who reads the waiting for news on and angels threads knows, there is no discrimination on either. It doesn't matter if it's a G1 winner or a claimer at Sunland... the people who post on either or both do so for any horse.

I posted a link on another thread but will repeat myself...

http://oldfriendsblog.wordpress.com/

... the point being it needs to start somewhere... the point being that any little act of kindness helps.

I wish every race horse had a guardinan angel.

The best that can happen for now is that, for whatever reason, one by one, some are given a chance at a decent life after retirement.

You know all of this...

It's too bad that only occassionally one comes along and gets attention and thankfully something is done. For every one who knows where the other how ever many hundreds / thousands end up.

In order to try to have balance in life though you need to start somewhere. You need to see where it is unbalanced and try to change it little by little so that's what this is about...

Maybe some day any horse who had ever been a stakes horse will automatically be protected and the ones at lower levels will be focused upon.

For now this is the reality... people noticing something simultaneously and collectively about a horse like Ball Four.

It's not much and it's not enough but it's a start. It's something. Maybe it's unfair but the world is unfair and so you've got to search for the good and keep finding it cause it's always there somewhere.

This was excellent.

[Dahoss]

It was a nice post MMSC, but allow me to try and better put what Freddy was trying to say.

If Ball Four is still relatively sound (since we don't know for sure let's assume he is) and if he still wants to compete, which based on his last two races he does, the level he is at shouldn't matter. If the idea that the level is beneath him, than the level should be beneath everyone in the field. He ran for 5k last year at Monmouth and no one seemed to notice or care. This is the level he is competitive now.

I don't think anyone wants to see a horse injured, but if every indication is that the horse is okay, than let him run. I could see objecting if he was finishing up the track, but he isn't. I hope he lives the good life when his connections decide to retire him. But until then, why not let him do what he was bred to do.

[my miss storm cat]

Point taken, Hossy.

(Thanks, Sighty).