Comments on: Will Barbaro Become A Poster Boy Against Animal Abuse? http://www.oddjack.com/2006/will-barbaro-become-a-poster-boy-against-animal-abuse-05-23.php Oddjack. Gambling guide to the stars, on sports betting, NFL football, NCAA college football, MLB baseball, casino, poker, horse racing, NBA basketball and NCAA college basketball. Top sportsbooks, poker rooms, Internet casinos, bingo halls, even cockpits. Las Vegas guide from shows to buffet to hotels and spas, to golf courses. Cheap, free, and privileged luxury. Oddjack covers it all. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:28:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.oddjack.com/2006/will-barbaro-become-a-poster-boy-against-animal-abuse-05-23.php/comment-page-1#comment-170118 Jason Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:45:48 +0000 http://www.oddjack.com/?p=2902#comment-170118 I think this type of stuff has always been wrong. Why do humans try and apply self conciousness to animals. Barbaro is not a trooper, set him in a field in the wild and see if he comes back to be what people call a trooper. Humans make me ashamed to be part of this world. Animals dont race and were not made to be bet on! Or judged for monetary rewards! All i can hope is that each one of the people that participate in cruelty and betting on animals will come back to eart to experience the same fate they cast upon so many. I think this type of stuff has always been wrong. Why do humans try and apply self conciousness to animals. Barbaro is not a trooper, set him in a field in the wild and see if he comes back to be what people call a trooper. Humans make me ashamed to be part of this world. Animals dont race and were not made to be bet on! Or judged for monetary rewards! All i can hope is that each one of the people that participate in cruelty and betting on animals will come back to eart to experience the same fate they cast upon so many.

]]> By: Bethany Witten http://www.oddjack.com/2006/will-barbaro-become-a-poster-boy-against-animal-abuse-05-23.php/comment-page-1#comment-28693 Bethany Witten Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:01:33 +0000 http://www.oddjack.com/?p=2902#comment-28693 The problem with the notion of them keeping Barbaro around for the money that would be made on the stud farm is this: Thoroughbred race horses are not allowed to be bred using Artificial Insemination. They must be bred naturally or the foal cannot be registered- of course people get around those kinds of things, but it would not be without so much blackmail opportunity that it could be fathomably worth it. Even if it had not been such a catastrophic break down, in a REAR leg nonetheless (which would be supporting a huge amount of weight in the breeding process), the subsequent onslaught of laminitis in his good leg pretty much renders him a lawn ornament. It is funny- I work at a museum dedicated to the KY Derby and we have people coming in asking about him, but they completely butcher the pronounciation of his name so that it is not unimaginable that they probably did not even watch the Derby at all. I had someone tell me that they had "just fallen in love with him", and that he "Had such heart." - He was a race horse, albeit a great one while he was running, and he was injured...True, he does have to be a trooper to have been able to stick through the recovery like this, but how does one go about telling those people it is not because they signed a Get Well card and sent him a bucket full of "horse toys"? People just want some kind of stir so as to be able to commiserate with all the other couch monkeys out there so they'll have something to talk about when they run out of gossip about the neighbors. The problem with the notion of them keeping Barbaro around for the money that would be made on the stud farm is this: Thoroughbred race horses are not allowed to be bred using Artificial Insemination. They must be bred naturally or the foal cannot be registered- of course people get around those kinds of things, but it would not be without so much blackmail opportunity that it could be fathomably worth it. Even if it had not been such a catastrophic break down, in a REAR leg nonetheless (which would be supporting a huge amount of weight in the breeding process), the subsequent onslaught of laminitis in his good leg pretty much renders him a lawn ornament.

It is funny- I work at a museum dedicated to the KY Derby and we have people coming in asking about him, but they completely butcher the pronounciation of his name so that it is not unimaginable that they probably did not even watch the Derby at all. I had someone tell me that they had “just fallen in love with him”, and that he “Had such heart.” – He was a race horse, albeit a great one while he was running, and he was injured…True, he does have to be a trooper to have been able to stick through the recovery like this, but how does one go about telling those people it is not because they signed a Get Well card and sent him a bucket full of “horse toys”? People just want some kind of stir so as to be able to commiserate with all the other couch monkeys out there so they’ll have something to talk about when they run out of gossip about the neighbors.

]]> By: Bill Scurry http://www.oddjack.com/2006/will-barbaro-become-a-poster-boy-against-animal-abuse-05-23.php/comment-page-1#comment-14084 Bill Scurry Thu, 25 May 2006 15:28:11 +0000 http://www.oddjack.com/?p=2902#comment-14084 Oh, I wish I'd had no interest in horse racing before this -- it's my goddamn day job, after all. Oh, I wish I’d had no interest in horse racing before this — it’s my goddamn day job, after all.

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