Cynthia_Smoot's Blog

I didn't watch the Kentucky Derby Saturday.  I was riding my own horse at the time, enjoying a beautiful spring evening and the fact that hes sound.... for now!  So I didn't see Big Brown's big  win.... or the heartbreak of watching the Derby's only filly hit the ground after fracturing both her front ankles. I don't think NBC actually showed it, but since then I have seen the video and it's sickening.  It's hard to find good statistics on how many thoroughbreds "break down" on America's race tracks.   When I googled a few things before writing this, I stumbled across an  editorial in the NY Times from nearly two years ago, after Barbaro's injury that eventually cost him his life. It could have been written today  .http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/opinion/nyregionopi
nions/27CImorrison.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Here's what the head of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association wrote this week. He's asking for comments. 

http://www.ntra.com/blog.aspx?blogid=15&year=2008&m
onth=5&day=5