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The race began and 100 yards later, just a couple dozen steps, Barbaro’s tried to retain his balance on three legs in a pitifully wrenching sight, his right rear ankle shattered.  Ruffian had not been enough for me to reject horse racing as barbaric.  The date that Michael Matz and the Jacksons murdered Barbaro, however, I vowed never to watch a horse race again.  Surgery led to an incurable hoof disease and Barbaro’s life was ended on January 29, 2007.  The chief of surgery said that he doesn’t often see such catastrophic injuries.  Most such horses are automatically just euthanized on the track, lacking the economic value to justify the surgery and rehabilitation.  Barbaro was potentially very valuable.  Remember Barbaro, murdered by the greed of the horse racing industry and Michael Matz, the gutless steeplechase rider, and the greed-motivated owners Gretchen and Roy Jackson on May 20, 2006, murdered at age 3 years and 9 months (April 29, 2003 – January 29, 2007).   

The race began and 100 yards later, just a couple dozen steps, Barbaro’s tried to retain his balance on three legs in a pitifully wrenching sight, his right rear ankle shattered.  Ruffian had not been enough for me to reject horse racing as barbaric.  The date that Michael Matz and the Jacksons murdered Barbaro, however, I vowed never to watch a horse race again.  Surgery led to an incurable hoof disease and Barbaro’s life was ended on January 29, 2007.  The chief of surgery said that he doesn’t often see such catastrophic injuries.  Most such horses are automatically just euthanized on the track, lacking the economic value to justify the surgery and rehabilitation.  Barbaro was potentially very valuable.  Remember Barbaro, murdered by the greed of the horse racing industry and Michael Matz, the gutless steeplechase rider, and the greed-motivated owners Gretchen and Roy Jackson on May 20, 2006, murdered at age 3 years and 9 months (April 29, 2003 – January 29, 2007).   

===Eight Belles

===Eight Belles===

The Kentucky socialite women with their colorful hats and inebriated minds celebrating the biggest social event in the cultural wasteland known as Kentucky, and trying to ignore the murder of Barbaro less than two years earlier, saw a beautiful filly similarly murdered in front of their eyes when Eight Belles collapsed after shattering both front ankles one-eight of a mile after the finish line in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 2008.  Her injuries, similar to that suffered by Barbaro in only one leg, and the resulting trauma to the animal were too devastating to even remove her from the track, resulting in the immediate induced end to her young three-year-old life.  Cry in your champagne, pastel-bonnetted Kentucky debutantes.  Although Larry Jones, her trainer, had the gall to state that Eight Belles just tripped over her own feet, the examination of the dead filly showed not only an absence of joint fluid in the damaged areas but also congested lungs, indicating over-racing, poor training, lack of medical attention, and the presence of performance drugs in her body.   

The Kentucky socialite women with their colorful hats and inebriated minds celebrating the biggest social event in the cultural wasteland known as Kentucky, and trying to ignore the murder of Barbaro less than two years earlier, saw a beautiful filly similarly murdered in front of their eyes when Eight Belles collapsed after shattering both front ankles one-eight of a mile after the finish line in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 2008.  Her injuries, similar to that suffered by Barbaro in only one leg, and the resulting trauma to the animal were too devastating to even remove her from the track, resulting in the immediate induced end to her young three-year-old life.  Cry in your champagne, pastel-bonnetted Kentucky debutantes.  Although Larry Jones, her trainer, had the gall to state that Eight Belles just tripped over her own feet, the examination of the dead filly showed not only an absence of joint fluid in the damaged areas but also congested lungs, indicating over-racing, poor training, lack of medical attention, and the presence of performance drugs in her body.