Horse Races - My First Diary (UPDATED)

jontabb

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Sunday May 04, 2008 · 2:49 PM PDT

2008/05/04 · 14:49

It's Sunday afternoon, I've mowed the lawn, weeded the garden and I'm now relaxing by an open window reading some dKos. I slipped over to MyDD for a bit and read a diary by Alegre about using yesterday's Kentucky derby as an analogy for the Democratic primary. I would agree with her premise if the truth about horse racing and breeding were not so sordid. The death of one horse because of injury is merely a drop in the bucket of the thousands that are slaughtered each year because they were never fast enough for racing.

I tried to post what I wanted to say in a comment to her diary, but I realized there is much more I want to say, so here it is, my first diary. The point I hope to make by the end of this diary is that it is hypocritical to get upset about analogies to the Kentucky derby just because a horse died...UNLESS we are willing to acknowledge there is a far worse problem inherent in horse racing and breeding.

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