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@thestaggieman Rachel. Ruffian’s brilliance was cut short but holy cow, Zenyatta was great, but didn’t venture from Cali much. Rachel traveled and always fought. It’s incredibly hard to choose and tiny things change the order all the time.

2009 Kentucky Oaks - Rachel Alexandra I’m fully convinced that she would’ve won the derby that year against Mine That Bird. She smoked this field in a hand ride. Rachel Alexandra - Ruffian - Zenyatta, Who’s the greatest female horse?

@AlphaThe54095 @Rennietime @seattleracing You need to watch Racing Stripes

@MidnightHill @Rennietime @seattleracing You need to watch Let It Ride

Say it louder. The sport is about the horse, not the gambler, not the clothes, not the people but the horse 👏

@joy_aten You’re funny with your superiority complex. Go blow it somewhere else cause it’s not happening with me. Have you discovered that horses can gravely injure themselves in a pasture - or are you one that wants the species extinct overall?

In what other sport is the death of an “athlete” on an “elite playing field” treated with such unimportance… #HorseRacing kills horses.

@Glennstradomus @TRACKGABE Dense. I didn’t stutter. Humans are not my topic, the horse is and it apparently causes the hell fires to rain down.

@MidnightHill @TRACKGABE Dense? Try looking at 12 different variables and variants on every race on the card. A horse is a beautiful creature but let us not pretend that a human isn't just as smart.

@Glennstradomus @MitchDavid12 And that’s the whole jist of my rant.. That’s all it was.

@MidnightHill @MitchDavid12 Of course the horse is important, is that what you want to hear. Ok. They are beautiful.

@Glennstradomus @SAbramowitz9021 Yes to profit sometimes, no to others. You’re not getting rich in horses. No to gambling on one’s I’m connected to. I’m not in it for that - not that I don’t do my $2 wagers, it’s not my driving force in life.

@MidnightHill @SAbramowitz9021 Stinky is right. I appreciate what you do to obtain horses. Do you profit at all? Are you gambling on your purchases?

@PelotaDawg @Rennietime @seattleracing I don’t think people should come close, hence my whole comment. But someone needs to show me on a doll where horse’s hurt you. In a sport built upon them. It’s amazing at the egos that can’t function.

@MidnightHill @Rennietime @seattleracing I agree the people and horses should come first. But you will need income to pay for that, coming from gamblers ether thru slots or on the horses. They will never sell enough tickets and beer to pay for it. You need us ✌️

@Glennstradomus @MitchDavid12 Humans can take care of themselves (clearly not a fan of the species). Why does it bother you so deeply to simply say the horse is important? What is the trigger in the brain that says “I must argue and make it all about me?”

@MidnightHill @MitchDavid12 What about the well being of the gambler too? A human has special needs different from a horses 🐎 needs.

@Glennstradomus @jericcoffman Gamblers fuel the purses of the ISA today, the sport existed long before gambling on them was a thing. But this has never been a topic about gambling, it has been a topic about the horse in HORSE racing.

@MidnightHill @jericcoffman Exactly eric. These beautiful creatures are bred to run, if it wasn't for gamblers, they would become extinct.

@brooklyncowboy1 Euthanized.

Any condition on horse and rider at Keeneland. Looked like a hind end injury for the horse from what I saw.

@DBYankees1 Mine is Friday officially. Happy Birthday!!

@MidnightHill Guess we found common ground! My birthday is also this week (tomorrow)

A few days later than normal, but the birthday week tradition continues.

@Slappy_White1 Screens up and ambulance is still on the track

any updates at Keeneland?

@pdc0804 Easy on the cliff there, no one said get rid of the gambler. The point is the sport was built on the horse - for centuries - so show more of the horse on coverage. You all clutch your pearls way too fast and with ZERO comprehension skill.

@MidnightHill There literally is no sport without the gambler. WTF are you talking about? These people are why the sport is just about dead

@LiveHorses1 You do know you can be a horse lover and own race horses simultaneously, right? You act like being a horse lover is a plague. No one gets into horses because they are a quick buck. I’ll send you my bills to prove that.

@MidnightHill LOL “Businessmen” mistakenly ID’ed only by you as “horse lovers” Like ping-pong balls, nobody needs to “own” race horses. ALL who do so are in it for the gamble. Your comments only prove no clear recognition of just who a race track crowd entails. Look around next time.

@LiveHorses1 Your comments have proven relentlessly that you aren’t a fan of the horse and that’s ok. I said most. It doesn’t have it include you. The can be big scary animals that humble those who think they are mighty. Go survey those at Keeneland today, I think you will learn otherwise.

@MidnightHill You are a complete fool if you think “horses are why the majority of anyone started going to (race tracks)” Horses, to “most people” are marginally more interesting than ping-pong balls. You need only go to a track and observe “most” of the people there to see as much.

@ReggieOnDaRail @TRACKGABE Mutual agreement. The egos that an animal is the base of a sport is mind blowing and definitely painful to read the sad attempts at justification of why it’s not. Oh and the illiterate who think a statement said to end their part of the game. Exhausting.

@MidnightHill @TRACKGABE This is more painful than the time I tried explaining to Swift how bad place betting is for your bankroll. 😞 🔫

@ReggieOnDaRail @TRACKGABE @DBYankees1 You have explained absolutely nothing. There also wasn’t anything to explain. I made a statement, I didn’t ask a question. Horses are the important part of horse racing. This doesn’t mean end gambling or that it doesn’t do a job. But whew you all get butt hurt over an animal.

@MidnightHill @TRACKGABE @DBYankees1 There are only so many ways this can be explained before your continued inability to grasp a simple concept makes it very obvious you are mentally retarded. As am I for attempting to explain it politely in the first place.

@PelotaDawg @DBYankees1 @Rennietime @seattleracing It has happened, it’s an unfortunate part that doesn’t have a fix. It still doesn’t make the horse second rate to the gamblers.

@MidnightHill @DBYankees1 @Rennietime @seattleracing Until they see one die on the track and then they dont ever want to come back and ask why do so many horse die and or get forgotten after the owners are done with them. Gamblers are harder to loose.

@chapeauxx Possibly not in its current form, and certainly not with the delightful egos running amuck, but there’s plenty of bush style racing that goes on all over the countryside. It has survived centuries, it just won’t be on a silver platter being severed to those who want it to die.

@MidnightHill Won't exist at all in 30 years