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Originally Posted by vetiver
What an awful day. Show up w/ my gf who has enjoyed going the couple times I've gone with her. Pay for club house entry but when we get there box seats are sold out. We get out to the grandstand just in time to see the stretch run of the 3rd and hear a roar of the crowd, then see horse and jockey lying immobile. Needless to say gf was horrified the rest of the time (and will not be going back).
Was alive in the pick 4 to the #2 in the 10th, dreams crushed obv. Junipers pass was 2nd choice but I didn't want to shell out another $14, paid 4k ez game etc.
Life tilt still intact!
Sorry about your PK4 loss Vet,had $50 on Juniper Pass,liked the horse from last race in the slop,and Brice Blanc normaly dont say a word,and he gushed about this horse last month during an HRTV interview,and expressed how pist he was that he was tooken off him. Lost $4 total on the day.
I dont have an attraction like what drew me to this game being Rags To Riches in 07,or a Big Z,who just absolutely stole my heart these past 3 years,which brings me to the point about your girlfriend. It this......That is what makes this game so damn special! At any point and time it could be a horses life gone,or a jockeys life gone,and i have such a deep envy and admiration for both animal and jockey to do what they do. It IS imo,what makes this sport so beautiful,because it imitates life so perfectly....It can be so exhilarating,and so unfair in the same breath. Today you walked for cancer,and a stand up thing that is! Today a kid battled and lost their life to that hideous disease,but tomorrow maybe some of the money raised at SA today saves a kids life.....Horses are going to fall,jockeys are going to get crippled,BUT horse know one thing,and thats to RUNNN,and ask any jockey if they would change their profession and you will get the same answer over and over.......