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Author: Kapcher Timestamp:- 28/8/2011 2:22:57 PM Subject: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: Another one that has died of a "suspected heart attack" at Sandown today. Funny that. Seems to happen alot.
I also read in an article by a Mr. Robert Windmill that "there were 25 protesters waving placards at the front gets and one took a photo of the stricken animal".
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh. How shocking that they dared to take a photo of the stricken animal.
Here is a bit of advice for you Mr. Windmill.
If there was no jumps race, there would have been no death and there would have been NO reason for a photograph to be taken.
Author: geelong63 Timestamp:- 29/8/2011 3:46:45 PM Subject: Re: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: LOL? I'll take that as a sarcastic LOL. Strange fellow you are. We've been over this ground in other threads. Get back to me when you have numbers for the thoroughbreds which don't make it to the races or somebody's farm. I suspect we'd all be shocked and possibly a little horrified.
Author: Kapcher Timestamp:- 28/8/2011 9:20:08 PM Subject: Re: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: The old "we need jumps to save horses from the knackery" argument hey?
What strikes me as funny is they seem to do alright in every other state in Australia, bar here and South Australia.
Did you all know there are only around 300 qualified jumpers in Victoria?
Do you want us all to believe that ALL of the horses that retire end up in a can? LOL
Oh, and what happens to all the SPRINTERS in Victoria (the majority) when they finish their racing careers? They all end up in a can too?
This sport is a joke. Enough is enough.
Your pro-arguments are wearing thin.
Two of the three KPIs were not met and Racing Victoria lied by continuing jumps in this state when they said they would bar it if they weren't achieved. They should be ashamed.
Author: Kapcher Timestamp:- 28/8/2011 9:12:36 PM Subject: Re: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: alcimedes, do you want to hear something else that's funny?
Apparently a horse like Black and Bent who is still capable of not only winning Listed races on the flat, but is going to run in the biggest staying race in the country, continues to have his life put at risk over the jumps. Whether he is a "good" jumper or not is not the point. There is undeniable evidence that jumps are inherently more dangerous than the flat.
I am guess the ol' "the jumps saves these horses from the knackery" argument applies in this case?
Would Black and Bent be doomed to a can without jumps?
Author: Kapcher Timestamp:- 28/8/2011 9:07:21 PM Subject: Re: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: The horse tripped and fell over the jump. Whether he had a heart attack or not, it was the fall that caused it.
alcimedes - you are better than that. It's clear I am not laughing at the death of the horse but the constant excuses from the media as to why horses are being killed.
Apparently Hassle had a "heart attack" too.
Apparently it happened right before the jump and it caused him to fall and snap a back leg. LOL! Give me a spell.
Author: camel56 Timestamp:- 28/8/2011 4:42:09 PM Subject: Re: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Message: Flat horses never have heart attacks? Oh dear you really are clueless!
We all know that the picnic plodders that you train don't have the require equipment to have a heart attack doesn't but that's not the case with horse that can actually go faster than 15s to the furlong.
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