I Dread Sports Reporters Today, If Rhoden's On It

Why start now?

Have a preconception, attach a couple of random facts, and voila . . . you're on the plane home.

They've let him get away with it, for years. They're not stopping now.

 

The elephant in the room, of course, is that horse racing really is, by and large, pretty damned inhumane.

 

Okie dokie. Being in fly-over country, I did not know that.

 

Disagree, in that horses during their early development and during training are treated extraordinarily well.

Don't like what happens to many retired thoroughbreds, but that issue is being seriously addressed by many significant names in the industry, and expect things to improve in that area, albiet slowly.

 

It shouldn't change slowly. It should change now, today.
I look at this the way I look at NFL football. There is no question that the NFL depends as vitally on the physical destruction of the human body as boxing does. That destruction is as inevitably a part of one of the games as it is the other, but it's rarely discussed that way in the NFL. Each injury is treated like an act-of-god event. Just stuff we don't talk about.

 

There's plenty of heat on the topic stateside . . . much more than in Europe, where
horsemeat isn't regarded as unfit for human consumption, as it is, here.

 

Le pomme de cheval?
C'est magnifique, non?

 

Bull-fighting? Dog-fighting? Rhoden wants to put horse racing on those levels? He's slipped over the edge into the abyss.

Bull-fighting: the bull gets stuck numerous times, tortured and then dies.
Dog-fighting: the dogs rip each other to shreds, after a lifetime of torture by the likes of Michael Vick.
Horse-racing: Horse is pampered, fed well, gets the best medical attention possible and for that, has to run a few races for a few years. Then get put to stud and spends the rest of his life in a meadow, eating and fucking.

Wow...alert the ASPCA.

 

The death of the particpating animal is the objective of bullfighting and dogfighting.

In horse racing, it's an accidental result, which the trainers at least attempt to avoid.

 

Wow, that easy eh? There's never...ever been any cases of drugging horses or questions about jockeys using the crops. It's just all good oats and good horse poontang.

 

Ummm, if Rhoden is just an idiot/lazy columnist on horse racing, how did he get in BASW 2007 with Death of a Racehorse? Curious.

 

What?