Thanks...

yessir! . they cinch that strap around the animals'
guts and watch them kick. . it's abuse. -- j
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Which is one reason why I won't attend rodeos. To me they are one step up from bullfighting. A person and a horse like one being is something worth watching,

Thanks The main thing is that I get to se the race and the celebrations after.

we have a dvd of the race, if you want a copy!
and welcome to the gulch, Steve!!! -- john
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misregardless? . and this will confuse people
everywhere about the correct spelling of pharaoh.
it will probably become a spelling bee favorite! -- j
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great story, Jim;;; we wouldn't sell a horse unless
we were totally confident that the new owners would
treat him/her right. . left us poorer, but we could
sleep at night. -- j
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Yes! . when outside animals get inside, it's curtains
for them. . I try to take them back outside, too, and
people think that I am nuts. -- j
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I think that there is enough long-term history between
humans and horses that there could be an instinctive
connection between some -- like Diane Lane showed
in the movie "secretariat." . my first wife was a
barrel racer with a great quarter horse named
ohio nugget. . she and he could move together
like one being -- smooth as silk. -- j
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Yes! . welcome to the gulch, Carl !!! -- john
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Ginger was smart enough to be able to tell the
difference between a snake and a stick. . she was
kind enough to avoid trying to brush me off her
back by going too close to tree trunks or limbs --
something which the others delighted in doing.
she was part quarter-horse and who knows
what else. . good horse! -- j
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A lot of things had to come together besides luck. I am happy for these folks. To pull this off, one must be integrated enough to see all the obstacles ahead of time and see a way through them.

Yes, you are correct, but the misspelling is what the Jockey Club put on its books. Now the spelling Pharoah will be regarded as correct, irregardless. Oops, I mean disregardless.

Some of them can count. Their upper limit is five.

Even the stupid ones are sometimes too smart, and cause trouble. The really smart ones can be very reliable. We had one of our new ponies watching the older ones work yesterday, and I swear you could see him thinking about what he observed, watch the little gears going around in his walnut-sized brain.

I enjoy watching those magnificent animals. Horses are a great wonder and boon to mankind. We used to visit Busch Gardens on a regular basis and one of the things we spent time at were the horses. Those huge Clydesdales were a treat to watch. We became friendly with a little woman who was one of the big horses caretakers. She was a very slim 5'2" and looked really tiny as she washed one of the big guys down. You could tell that she loved those horses by how she treated them and talked about them.

I love all critters...I even pick up spiders when I can identify them and re-release them to the outside
All animals welcome in my gulch before government

I love horses. I was a horse person in another lifetime. I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and we had horses. Then I moved to Denver in 1977 and it was still sort of a small, large city. There were many ranches on the outskirts of town. I spent my summers and weekends doing fence work on a couple of them. That entailed a horse to work the fence line, then a work truck to go back and fix the problems I had found. I had a beautiful paint that did a wonderous job as my work horse. I hated to sell her when I moved on from doing that work but a kind rancher that I had worked for, took her and put her up in his paddock. So, that is my horse story and it is a fond memory of another time and place in my life.

And the crowd went wild. My only puzzlement is the spelling of the name: Pharoah. Shouldn't it have been spelled Pharaoh?

I was not able to watch the race on Saturday. My wife did DVR it so that I was able to see the race. I just loved the jockeys reaction. He was a very happy man and proud the "his" winning horse.

My wife and I were just about jumping up and down in the living room watching that race. Very exciting. We also laughed at the Jocky's reaction.

It reminded me of when I was a little kid, about 8. My family lived on Whidbey Island, pretty remote at that time. My grandfather had a cabin on the west shore of the island. We were walking down the beach at his place and his neighbors were out on their front lawn that spilled out onto the beach celebrating. It was a rare sunny day. They asked my family up to drink champagne with them as the lady had just gotten a check for painting an official portrait of Seattle Slough. Funny how some memories come back decades later. Here we were in the middle of nowhere, out on that island, celebrating that.

as a ham, the fcc is annoying. . they administer and
we save lives. . they impede and we enable.

my sister's thoroughbred "Promise" was a delight
for her for many years. . beautiful animals. -- j
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I shod horses for my first wife's family, and loved to
ride every now and then. . . they are amazingly
varied in intelligence. . we had 4, and they went
from about an IQ of 3 to an IQ of 20 -- I loved the
smart one, Ginger. -- j
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I bet that you went home a little richer;;; Congrats!!! -- j
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I watched the race, heard the jockeys reaction, and had a good laugh. Damn the fcc!
I'm not a pro but have played the ponies a little when I was young and lived in upstate NY. So a loss seemed in reach until the final stretch, an enjoyable race.

The race yesterday was very exciting. I was quite happy for all the people involved with American Pharoah. I have been to Churchill Downs, (not on a race day) do not like mint Juleps, and altho think horses are beautiful, am afraid of them. I like horses from a distance.