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10-04-2011, 02:48 PM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!" 
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10-04-2011, 03:33 PM
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This is a great thing for the people who would want to do it... I mean it really is nice.
I always feel like I have to say this... I am definately a fan, I don't think I've ever gone overboard though (with her. Maybe with one or two others but hey that's just who I am. Accept it or go **** yourself. Respectfully, of course!  ).These threads always turn into little contests of wit and sarcasm and that's cool but remember kids... fans either become - or are - bettors. The couple of threads every year about generating new anything, bringing new people to the sport, wwhhhaaahhh-it's-dying-what-do-we-do-oh-lookie-here's-an-email-askng-for-suggestions etc...you've got to be able to accept this kinda thing cause it's just the way it is. There are different kinds of fans and players and I don't know about any of you but I have no problem when anyone goes out of their way to include the loyal, lifelong types who DO play believe it or not. Like I said I would not wish to attend this BUT a couple of my closest friends are probably hearing about this right now and planning on going and why not... Good for them. I'm sure they'll have a ball. If it had been Hendrix I'd have gone in a heartbeat.
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10-04-2011, 03:35 PM
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Forgot to say I'll be juping on and off so please be advised that if you wish to form a line to crucify me I am not running away but will be back.
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10-04-2011, 03:42 PM
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10-04-2011, 03:42 PM
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I have secret video of Bernardini mating with Zenyatta.
I'm going to have a Z porn launch on the same day.
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10-04-2011, 04:31 PM
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She was and continues to be an incredible PR machine though. I just wish these efforts actually did something that helps the sport grow where it needs to. Besides Freddy and Stonegossard, who really wants Jerry Moss's autograph anyway?
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10-04-2011, 05:08 PM
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Blame!!
I hear they're shipping in a 'synthetic' dance floor to really enhance the 'experience'..................
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A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown
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10-04-2011, 05:12 PM
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It's interesting because they're the ones who actually go to the track while I know a lot of people just wager online for the most part - myself included. Zenyatta came along at the single perfect time in terms of the PR machine thing, as you kinda pointed out. These people do understand the value of it and have done a fantastic job keeping their fans interested. This whole event is, apparently, for charity so at least there's that. I hate bullies and always have and sometimes the fans get bullied on racing boards. We all have people we remember from differnt boards and different times... On the old TT forum there was a guy who went by Royal Blue (I won't say it... ) and while he was fanatical and annoying and silly and a lot of other things that one could just call tiresome he did have enthusiasm.Now even the most hardened posters there... no one tried to crush that. Know what I'm saying? Let's not round up and kill the Zenyatta crowd. They're not hurting anyone and they're not too vocal these days. I mean right? Quote:
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10-04-2011, 05:21 PM
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Well ... can't knock a charity event.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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10-04-2011, 05:25 PM
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I do know what you are saying, but I also think that her crowd was so over the top (not every fan, but there were a lot) and continues to be that it's okay to laugh at it.
I think even the prettiest horsey person in the world can see why some might think it is funny (or weird or whatever) to talk to horses online as if they are responding back. Instead of taking offense to it (not saying you, just in general) maybe if they had a little sense of humor about themselves and what they were doing there wouldn't be the resentment.
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10-04-2011, 05:38 PM
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I think they should allow only Zenyatta to enter the Classic let her run around the track and give her horse of the year.
This would give her faithful a stronger case for winning it than last year and the Mosses won't have to lobby as much for it.
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10-04-2011, 07:14 PM
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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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10-04-2011, 08:56 PM
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10-04-2011, 09:00 PM
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"An Absolute Thriller!!" - Grassy wins a six-way photo finish, Saratoga 9th, 8-22-09
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10-05-2011, 08:49 AM
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Really, there is too much of this going on for my taste. Look, I'm a guy who admits to giving my dogs a smooch on the head now and then, and my love for the horses is what brought me to this sport. But this bit with horses "posting" on their facebook page is over the top. I try to ignore it. I'm also a fan that enjoys visiting retired horses at the farms. But I enjoy that and admire them for what they are, and I feel that attempts to humanize them, particularly with cutesy-talk, somehow diminishes that. Yes, they have personalities, and they are individuals, but they are horses. Admire them for being great horses. 
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10-06-2011, 02:07 PM
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