Why is no one talking about Kentucky Derby?

When was the last time 158,000 fans showed up at a track meet in the pouring rain ?[/quote]

That's,an essy one moron.....

One million spectstors

come out every year to watch the Boston and New York marathons....

H5 wrote:

When was the last time 158,000 fans showed up at a track meet in the pouring rain ?

That's,an essy one moron.....

One million spectstors

come out every year to watch the Boston and New York marathons....[/quote]

Shoulder to shoulder say 3 people EVERY 2 meters = 63,000

63,000 on each side of the course that's 125,000

4 deep every meter of the way on each side. and you have a million.

because nbc had done their best to make it an unwatchable over-hyped, all day drawn out affair full of fluff, one over dramatic interest story after another instead of trusting the viewer to appreciate the pure beauty of the sport itself. just as they like do at the olympics

Enjoy your mint juleps.

Sorry, that was meant to reply to Funny Cide, most overrated horse BTW.

True dat!

Monday Silence wrote:

Sorry, that was meant to reply to Funny Cide, most overrated horse BTW.

Rated exactly as he should be.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

moist wrote:

His mother was a mudder?

What did I just say

Oh this baby loves the slop. Loves it. Eats it up. Eats the slop. Born to slop. His father was a mudder.

Funnycide wrote:

Your head injury is showing wrote:

He was referring to a general decline in interest in the KD due to the triple crown drought being over. Your head injury unfortunately prevented you from understanding that and substituted a nonsensical interpretation causing you (and only you) to think he was saying Justify would win the triple crown. He very clearly did not say that. Sorry you are so dumb. Was it a car accident? Head injuries are the worst.

Awww, poor little girl you got all butt hurt and changed your handle because I smacked you with your retarded post .

When was the last time 158,000 fans showed up at a track meet in the pouring rain ?

There it is again. You’re even dumber than I thought. Sad. I am not the serious horse guy, your idiocy just stood out, and then you doubled down on stupid. Tragic. You didn’t say, was it a car accident?

cuz this is letsrun not letshorse

2 legs good; 4 legs bad.

Bad Wigins wrote:

How do they know thoroughbreds are the best over those distances? Odds of that are pretty small if you think about it, since they're are descended and very heavily inbred from three horses.

If someone tried to breed a racehorse from entirely non-thoroughbred stock, eventually they would succeed, easily. No way is that the best possible 1 3/8 mile horse. Build one taller, thinner, more like a cheetah, it will go faster. Horse racing is stuck in a silly time warp based on outmoded racist theories.

You don't know much about horses, do you?

The odds of that are pretty darn good. Otherwise, show me a horse that can beat a TB.

I rode horses much of my younger years, and TB's are yards faster than anything else. There's no comparison. A QH is faster over a sprint, yes. An Arabian holds up well over a really longer endurance ride, and some part-Arabs even more so. But for a mile or two is not even close. From a half mile out to several miles a TB wins hands down (pun intended)

People did try to breed a racehorse from entirely non-TB stock. And they either lost or they produced a TB.

King of The Wind wrote:

Wild horses don't exist anymore and the original domestication of the horse involved doing as you described anyway. The wild and diverse gene pool has to be inbred to fix the traits. That's what was done in the first place.

You are missing the point. There are populations out there with much more diverse genetics who have genotypes not available in bred stock, and that's "wild" enough for a starting point.

Fixing "traits" is chasing after phenotypes in the mistaken belief that they are a simple function of genotype, and that one can identify all the traits that make a horse fast. The reality of gene expression is far more complex than that, and many useful genotypes have undoubtedly been lost in the breeding process.

Create some wild herds and invent a predator that can run faster than thoroughbreds, and after enough generations the horses will be faster too.

No there is not. When there was people domesticated them and bred them selectively already. The traits offered have already been selected.

The thoroughbred was bred for performance not appearance, the phenotype is a by-broduct of that Not the other way around.

Lions are faster than Zebras and Zebras are the same speed they have always been.

In short, stop talking out of your hindquarters.

H5 wrote:

When was the last time 158,000 fans showed up at a track meet in the pouring rain ?

That's,an essy one moron.....

One million spectstors

come out every year to watch the Boston and New York marathons....[/quote]

And they don't pay a penny to watch it.

How many watch on TV?

Pine Plains wrote:

Watch out for Audible at the Belmont .

Not the quickest pony out of the gate but has endurance .

He just ran out of track today . Belmont is the longest of the three majors .

His win at the Florida derby , although not a fast time , proves to me , he

loves to run and win .

Audible got a bad start , but closed hard .

Congrats to Justify and pure running in the mud !

"His father was a mudder" "His mother was a mudder"

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

Pine Plains wrote:

Watch out for Audible at the Belmont .

Not the quickest pony out of the gate but has endurance .

He just ran out of track today . Belmont is the longest of the three majors .

His win at the Florida derby , although not a fast time , proves to me , he

loves to run and win .

Audible got a bad start , but closed hard .

Congrats to Justify and pure running in the mud !

"His father was a mudder" "His mother was a mudder"

Do you read a thread, and post the same joke that has already been beaten to death, or just jump in with your comment without thinking?