BarbaroII

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'd imagine she means that it's better to have a positive angle in the news (people seem intent on following barbaros little brothers) rather than just negatives such as a douche bag cheater posing as a trainer.

I think that's exactly it. Bloodhorse's semi-regular blog about Barbaro's brothers (and forthcoming sister) gets filled with lots of "horses are pretty" comments, but it's nice to see so many people enthusiastic, rather than focusing on Barbaro's tragedy.

I had a coworker just last week say how she hates horse racing after what happened to Barbaro. And I tried explaining, horses break down in their stalls, laminitis takes healthy horses, too, and his death focused a lot of attention and research money on it, blah blah blah, but forget it; in her head it's mean to make horsies run in circles and that's it. (Of course, to her the Central Park carriages are also barbaric, but when I asked her where she thinks what would happen to all these former pacers and Amish farm horses if their job was taken away she blithely said, "oh, someone could put them out in a field somewhere" and I just about slammed my head into a street lamp in despair.)

So yay for Lentenor's first race. Here's hoping he keeps progressing.