Another breakdown at Turfway

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Three days, three snappers, I'm tellin ya this is great stuff.

you're kidding me with this right? I mean you are not actually celebrating the death of 3 horses because it suits your argument about polytrack...that is so classless I don't even have words for it.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

you're kidding me with this right? I mean you are not actually celebrating the death of 3 horses because it suits your argument about polytrack...that is so classless I don't even have words for it.

You misunderstood him. He didn't mean the horses breaking down was great stuff. He was sarcastically saying that polytrack is great stuff.

[The Bid]

Theres a zero percent chance Oracle was saying a horse breaking down was "great stuff".

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

You misunderstood him. He didn't mean the horses breaking down was great stuff. He was sarcastically saying that polytrack is great stuff.

She knows that but shes trying to start trouble.
I've never celebrated a horse breaking down, they are inocent creatures.
My point was to illustrate that this stuff is not the answer we are having jammed down our throats.
Quite frankly, I think Janks had it right on ATRAB this summer when she said that TRAINERS need not be running sore horses.
Perhaps my critic can tell me(because she knows OH so much about this) how many guys in California have increased the work patterns of their horses to every 6 days instead of every 7 days(which was too much to begin with!!!). I can name two who have and it sickens me.
Thats really my point, this stuff is a crock of **** and if it all it does is make trainers think they can go out there and pound em even harder than they already do, we will end up in EVEN worse shape.
Watching horses break down makes me nauseous.
And the inference that i would celebrate this, for any cause, is sickening.
I'd maybe celebrate one of these little crooked pinheads getting a whack, but never an innocent creature. Really "classy" to make an accusation that I'm celebrating rather to ask me to clarify my intent. I'm sarcastic most of the time, and this time was no different. WHen I said this stuff is great, I was referring to the polytrack. Racing's "salvation" that doesn't seem to be doing much except lining some pockets and causing trainers to overwork horses who were overworked in the first place.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

You misunderstood him. He didn't mean the horses breaking down was great stuff. He was sarcastically saying that polytrack is great stuff.

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Or the scumbag people that wish stuff like cancer on people if a horse they bet on loses.

Or the lowlifes that worship a staue of a jockey and defend his every ride no matter how bad it is.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Please when it comes to being a lowlife I think you have that market cornered. Big difference in defending a ride or two, to wishing a disease on people, don't ya think?

As if you have any idea what you are talking about.