Did you see the Kentucky Derby this year? By golly, what a race! Happily, this time around, unlike what happened at last year’s Preakness, the favorite did not suffer a fatal broken leg. No, this time around, the broken bones were suffered by the horse who finished second. She has already been killed.
And, if you’re going to race animals, how is it that people have chosen the only goddamned animal that is capable of breaking a leg while sprinting, and pretty much the only animal for whom a broken leg is a death sentence? How many years in a row does this kind of shit have to happen before society wakes up and outlaws the goddamned sport? What’s up with that? This is the same sort of insane thinking that leads to naming an animal Big Brown. Link.
