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Originally Posted by paisjpq
thank you rupert...Yes I did misunderstand Mike's words...probably because of the fact that he referred to the horses as snappers...as someone who has heard the sound of a horses' bone breaking from 2 feet away this absolutely turned my stomach and I still find it hard to believe that Mike would defend his use of the word. One cannot simultaneously profess to be a champion of these animals and callously drop disgusting references like that IMO...the 2 just don't go together.
I apologize for any 'trouble' that ensued while I was at work...but that was not and has never been my intent.
Furthur, I have never posted on another forum in my life so Blue Eyes is barking up the wrong tree there.
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Beth its a slang term that many have heard at the track.
You watch a race and you hear a guy say "the 2 snapped".
Its ugly and I myself get sickened at horses breaking down.
I guess its one of those terms you hear a lot and forget that its gonna offend most people.
I am sorry i used the word, I'm not defending it, there are better ways to put it.
But noone else thought I meant "this is great stuff" and was referring to the horses breaking down.
I think this stuff is an excuse for a lotta guys to continue to overdrill horses(like I said in Cali, a few guys are now on SIX DAY PATTERNS!!!!) and folks are gonna run horses who have no business being on the track because they think Poly will prevent them from breaking down.
I'm sure not rooting for horses to die to say i told you so, that would make me like the scumbag Democrats who root for soldiers to die in Iraq so they can say i told you so, and there isn't anything lower than that.