Mint julips for everyone!

[heidi]

I'm rooting for Eight Belle - who would you put a c-note on?

ETA: Well, that's the last damned time I'm rooting for anyone.

Comments

[rookie131.livejournal.com]

Z Fortune is gorgeous, but I'm picking Adriano. I will always cheer for Edgar Prado.

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

#6 because that's my love's username. (Big fan of The Prisoner.)

I have an odd way of betting. I rarely do it. However, I go based on a quirk that appeals to me. And when I go with my whim, I tend to win.

[presentiment.livejournal.com]

Dude, Eight Belles was my girl and she got second and then DIED on the track! She broke both front ankles and they put her down! I can't stop crying. :(

[rookie131.livejournal.com]

This is last year all over again. I watched two races last year where horses have to be euthanized on the track or after the race. I used to train horses and it absolutely breaks my heart. I think I'm done watching races.

[presentiment.livejournal.com]

I get too emotionally involved - it's why I don't think I'll ever be able to own a horse or ride just one exclusively. It destroys me when anything bad happens. :(

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Oh, bloody hell, that's just awful.

I'm with you - let's go be miserable together.

[montisello.livejournal.com]

Well, SHIT.

I'm starting to think twice about all the propaganda PETA and others of that ilk scream about the horses being mistreated.

She was DONE. She was simply galloping. What the hell?

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

SO SAD!! The kids were all 0_o. Heck, the adults were too. :(

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Of course they were! It was just such a shock to watch it and....

Oh, the poor horse. So sad.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

That's one of the most hearbreaking things I've ever seen.

[darkjediprncess.livejournal.com]

That was so sad, to come in second and then seconds later be down. She was a pretty horse. At least they didn't get it on tape or we'd be seeing over and over like they did with Barbaro.

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

The good news is I picked Eight Belles to finish second in my pool. I was the only one to correctly pick any horse.

The bad news is...sheesh. I quit watching horse racing 20 years ago for this reason and I think I'll have to stop again.