Planning ahead - Ky Derby 2007

Originally Posted by paisjpq

thats pretty funny...guess I shouldn't tell you what my job was when we took the studs to the shed on th morgan farm I used to work at...

Nah thats ok, my clearest vision of that day was the guy who was holding this thing like plunger with a puffy thing wrapped around it at the end. I said what the hell is that guy doing? I was told his job was to place that between the stallion and the mare in the crucial area to make sure that the stallion didn't damage the mare. It just struck me as crazy that could be somebody's job. I mean, can you imagine being a kid in school and the teacher asking you what your daddy does for a job and you answer that he holds this thing between humping horses so that the stalllions schlong doesn't get too far in there?

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Cardus

I've watched those "sessions" at Ashford. The first stallion that I saw was King of Kings (about three years ago). Damn!

Since watching him do his thing, I have referred to him as the "Aptly named King of Kings."

As for the plunger guy, it's a tough job, but someone has to do it.

one of the funniest days of my life was when the guys @ Ashford took my mom up in the video booth to watch with them while Grand Slam covered a mare...they explained everything to her...so funny, she nearly died. She just couldn't believe how matter of fact everyone is about such a brutal looking act.