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At the rise of sounding totally ignorant,tell me....what should he have done when the race was over? You wind up on the backside of the track with a lame horse...then what? What is acceptable in the critics' minds?
Cory was wrong. He should of pulled him up and walked him back to the paddock rather than have the horse go another 1/2 mile to the winners circle.
Go back to paddock. It's right on backside
I am almost speechless. What in the world is this driver thinking about? He could have gone directly to the paddock or just stop and call for a horse ambulance. This guy deserves a huge fine.
Horrible display of horsemanship!
Scumbag Callahan should get days and a nice fine. That’s animal abuse you jackoffs. He tries to deflect and blow it off like oh I walked him back from the winners circle. You sure did because 20 people around the winners circle were screaming at you jack off.
lol like there was 20 ppl near the winners circle
Happy New Year to all. We have made progress in the game of horse racing. Yes, it is a terrible look for the morals of the industry when you win a race, and return dead lame. No doubt, he should have went straight to the paddock. But, as I said , we have made some progress. I recall racing at Monticello in 1978. Joe Ricco and his trainer, Skeeter Pines had a mid level claimer that could win every race he was entered. His full name escapes me, Hobo something . Hobo Willy maybe. Anyway, if you could get the horse on the starting gate, you were almost sure of a win. So, the outrider could not help. The horse would dig them in and sulk. To get him there, they would place the poor guy in so much pain, he would do anything. Skeeter would place a clamp style twitch over his lips and walk him on the backside. Then, run him up and place his nose on the gait. Every race the whole place of people and of course all the racing officials saw this cruelty and accepted it as "good horsemanship" Monticello had others like one who would win quite often and literally walk to the winner's circle dead lame. Then walk back to the paddock that was on the back side of the quarter pole back then, getting more lame with every step. 7 days later he was back in to go. Poor bastard would win again and thousands would watch the enslaved animal go though this toucher again. All along horsemen and fans saying , "boy, what a tough SOB, he has some guts. "Many more just like this at every racetrack. Back then we looked at as a badge of bravery to the poor horse. Like he had a choice.
No doubt simulcasting exposed it to many more people. But, it was our culture that not only accepted it as slick horsemanship, but saw no wrong in it. My point is we have evolved in our equine values. There is less treating a horse as a pure commodity and more as a living being. We still have a ways to go in some circles. The claiming game is nowhere near the rent- a- horse game it was just 10 years ago. And, there is progress on the drug users. I am not naive enough to believe it will ever be a drug free game, but, there has been more progress in these areas of abuse and cruelty then at anytime.