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Kilotwat
11/16/09

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A quibble with the above write-up

For the first time in decades, the U.S. skating team has no clear-cut Olympic medal contender.

While that is painfully true in the ladies skating, there are other disciplines in figure skating, too. The US currently boasts the reigning world champion in men's figure skating (Evan Lysacek) and the reigning silver medalists in ice dancing (Belbin and Agosto). They've been performing well this season, too: all three just won Skate America in their respective fields. We'll see Ol' Glory hoisted over that icy podium yet. #horses
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Kilotwat
11/16/09

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There's Kim Yu Na of South Korea, the woman who's a good bet to win the Olympic gold. She's skating to a medley of James Bond music for her short program. #horses
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La Chica Lucy
11/16/09

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I was hoping Jezebel would post that coat hanger link! #horses
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J.D.Regent
11/16/09

In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
am I reading that British sex ed article wrong? It seems like it says their approaches DID work? #horses
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Kivrin
11/16/09

@J.D.Regent: That article appears to be saying two different things. I am totally confused. #horses
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labratintraining
11/16/09

In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
I wonder if all the male horses stand on the perimeter and complain to each other about how the female horses walk away with a sneer when they go up behind them and start grinding awkwardly. And then stare down the girl horses while trying to figure out why they can't get a date. #horses
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J.D.Regent
11/16/09

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wait, you can look up UNPROVEN ALLEGATIONS against people? that can't be right. #horses
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/16/09

@J.D.Regent: Yeah, that was my exact reaction... #horses
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formergr
11/16/09

@J.D.Regent: Yeah, that sounds a little too like that website Don'tDateHimGirl.com, or whatever it is... #horses
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Elaken
11/16/09

@J.D.Regent: I don't have qualms with it because they are talking about serial abusers and men with allegations from several different women. It isn't as if a guy gets accused once and than put on the list. #horses
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yvanehtnioj
11/16/09

In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
That Gaddafi snippet is comedy gold. I'm not even going to follow the link, because nuance might kill my buzz. #horses
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Kivrin
11/02/09

In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
I wonder if those sweet, innocent children know what happens to the pretty horsies who fall down in a race?

(Yeah, I know, I'm no fun. But I hate horse racing.)
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zoethebitch
11/02/09

@Kivrin: #melbournecup
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bowleserised
11/02/09

@Kivrin: The same thing that happens to any horse which breaks a leg, whether it's an unridden pasture ornament or a three-day eventer. You can't tell a horse to just take the weight off its feet and not panic until the bone sets.

Better question to ask: what about those racehorses who retire sound and are trucked straight off to a slaughter house because their owners are no longer interested? #melbournecup
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Kivrin
11/02/09

@bowleserised: "You can't tell a horse to just take the weight off its feet…" I realize that; I still have a problem with the industry that exists around humans forcing horses to race (and thereby injure themselves).
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bowleserised
11/02/09

@Kivrin: Horses... will injure themselves in a field. In retirement. My mum worked for one of the biggest racing vets in Newmarket, and she remembered one stallion that just galloped into a tree and was killed.
They do love to run, and they love running with other horses even more.
And horses, like people, need to have jobs to earn their keep. It's up to the trainers and owners to look after them responsibly, and most do.
Crazy whip use (it's considerably more restricted in the UK than the US), breeding from unsound horses and producing more unsound horses, and the use of drugs = major problems.

I dunno, like any other aspect of horses, there are good people who love their horses, and there are bad people. But I've also seen a horse downright refuse to race (just the one), and you cannot shift a half tonne horse that really really doesn't want to go anywhere.
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Kivrin
11/02/09

@bowleserised: "Crazy whip use (it's considerably more restricted in the UK than the US), breeding from unsound horses and producing more unsound horses, and the use of drugs = major problems." Those are the major problems I have with the horseracing, too; the fact that horses are routinely killed when they get hurt is just the icing on the shitty cake, in my mind. (And producing more unsound horses leads to more injuries, which leads to more horses getting shot…you see where I'm going.)

Basically, I have a problem with people maximizing profits at animals' expense. Not just horseracing—factory farming, too. If people could be counted on to "do the right thing" by the animals in their care…but, unfortunately, they can't. And that's what upsets me. #melbournecup
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bowleserised
11/02/09

@Kivrin: More regulation is definitely needed, although from what I can see of US rescue and welfare blogs, there's not much protecting horses and other animals.
I'm researching some history of horse welfare in the UK, and there's loadsa legislation there. Doesn't stop all the cruelty, but it's getting easier for the authorities to take away abuse cases, and to prosecute. Also, huge restrictions on which horses can be slaughtered for meat, which will save a lot of them.
But there are some US tracks who are taking action against trainers who sell horses to slaughter, and there are rescues that do an amazing job of saving what horses they can and rehabbing them. #melbournecup
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100flowers
11/02/09

@bowleserised: It doesn't happen to all racehorses, by any means, but pretty much any Melbourne Cup winner is going to be looked after and cared for for the rest of its life.

Unless it goes to America, and is poisoned there. (Phar Lap reference). But even then, Phar Lap was stuffed, mounted, and brought back to Australia. His heart is in Canberra, and his body is in the Melbourne Museum.

For some reason, Australian culture just seems to venerate our Cup winners. #melbournecup
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bowleserised
11/03/09

@100flowers: Yes, the winners are fine (though one Kentucky Derby winner ended up in a slaughterhouse in Japan and a Grand National winner was found starving in a field), and I think most horses are wonderfully cared for, but there's a tremendous wastage of horses that didn't win on the race course but could have had great careers as riding horses in retirement. If you read Fugly Horse of the Day, there are rescuers fishing thoroughbreds out of the kill pen every day.
I love racing, but it really needs to get its house in order. #melbournecup
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100flowers
11/03/09

@bowleserised: Oh, I wouldn't argue that - racing DOES need to sort its shit out. #melbournecup
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Ailatan
11/02/09

In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
These centaurs are much better than A Rod's. #melbournecup
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CurtCole
11/02/09

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The mob really is upping their game during this recession. #melbournecup
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bowleserised
11/02/09

In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
I noticed the Melobourne Cup in the Twitter top ten. Those Aussies really know how to have a horse race, and over a proper distance too! #melbournecup
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andBegorrah
11/02/09

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Oh, no, the filly out in front has a bruise on her knee! Shoot her. #melbournecup
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Ailatan
11/02/09

@andBegorrah: That's a mare bump, she will show those foals! #melbournecup
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CurtCole
11/02/09

@andBegorrah: I imagine it would be hard to be saddled with that type of injury. #melbournecup
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BabyJane
11/02/09

@andBegorrah: What a sad tail. #melbournecup
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100flowers
10/28/09

In reply to A Movable Beast
Yippee. It's Spring Carnival, the Melbourne Cup is next week, and I HAVE TO WORK! Not fair!

For those not of Australian extract, the Melbourne Cup is our most prestigious horse race - and a public holiday for residents of fair Melbourne. But not for me. I am bitter about this, and time and a half is not going to make up for it.

The race is always held at about 3.20pm on the first Tuesday of November, and I swear to the Heavens, the entire country just does nothing between 3pm and 3.30pm. Nothing, except for get to a TV or radio to hear the results. I remember as a kid at school, on Cup Day they'd cut classes short and town kids would either run home, or gather round the TV in the library, while us bus kids would race to our buses, and listen to the radio that the driver turned on.... #changingoftheguard
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jenrobe
10/28/09

@100flowers: Grr, me too! Last year the publication I worked on went to print Tuesday morning, so we just sashayed down to the Argyle Bar in the Rocks for booze and betting. This year I will be bang on deadline and I suspect the celebrations will consist of a faint "woo!" in the background before returning to the shackles of my keyboard. #changingoftheguard
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dustycommercial
10/28/09

In reply to A Movable Beast
This horse has such a calm, pretty eye. I love horses. Seeing one still makes my heart leap. I don't think I'll ever get over my horse crazed youth even if I don't have the resources for a horse right now. More horse pictures please! #changingoftheguard
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LaMorena
10/28/09

In reply to A Movable Beast
Love those velvety noses! My mom's horses are like overgrown lap dogs, so that is usually what I'm doing when I'm home.

I wouldn't try that with most racehorses I've known or you'd risk a broken nose. Usually too high-strung and flighty fom my experience. #changingoftheguard
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