Horse note

I see on the news this evening that Union Rags won the Belmont Thoroughbred horse race.

Ah the time of 2:30 minutes was S L O W !

Secretariat still holds the Belmont record of 2:24 seconds.

The world record for 1 and 1/2 miles was some horse out California way (after Secretariat) with 2:22.

So today's race was slow indeed but I guess some horse has to win even the slow races.

And so "I'll Have Another" could not run the race because of a tendon injury. So he is retired because he's now worth millions as a stud. And what a laugh that is, for how many in all history of the Triple crown, that won one or more of the three races ever produced a horse that won any of the three races. Even Secretariat produced NO foal that went on to win even ONE of the three races.

It's a gene scrabble game (I'll Have Another had no great line and was originally bought for only $11,000.)

It's one of those crazy big time sports that only the crazy rich (have more money than know what to do with) enter the sport, and so I'll Have Another will bread for tens of thousands of dollars (to breed your Mare to him) and will from history have a 99.9 percent of no chance of producing a horse to win ANY of the triple crown races.

Ya.... go figure.
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