Hi Oh Silver AWAY!!!!

Ok, I'm pretty sure everyone has seen or heard about the "fiasco" that unrivalled over this past weekend. Picture this, Kentucky Derby. Thousands of people drinking drinks. Women everywhere wearing hats that would probably get them killed if they were at a basketball game or baseball game. And hundreds of horses, walking, trotting and chilling. So what happens is...One brave soul was rounding the corner and something happened. I'm not totally sure what but the horse fell down and broke its front 2 ankles. Now the doctors and trainers all had to come out there and check on it and they had to eventually "put the horse down." Sad right? I thought it was sad for about 1.2 milliseconds and then started thinking about what I should eat for dinner.

Fast forward to I'm riding back to Charlotte with my boy C and we are listening to the radio and the announcers brings up the above situation. Starts saying how people are devastated, kids crying and needing therapy, women wanting to commit suicide and so forth. I look at C with that Eddie Murphy face from "Trading Places". You know the face, where he is talking to the Old dudes going over the stock items and they say, "This is pork belly, which is made into bacon" and Eddie looks at the screen like, "I fugging know you ignorant mofo". Thats the face I had because I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Now don't get me wrong. I love animals. I had a dog for a pet. I had some goldfish. I eat meat with lots of garlic, so I love my animals. Anyway, I started thinking to myself, How can these people feel this bad for an animal. We have millions of people dying left and right but we have people devastated over a horse dying. Really?

Then I started to think about this horse.
Its been trained from birth to run. To carry a larger than normal midget on its back. To be beaten with a whip. To be choked by whatever it is thats in its mouth. It risks life and death every time it runs because a simple ankle injury and its game over. But it has no control over this. Maybe this was the horses out in life? But seriously, look at it like this. These people claim to treasure these animals so but yet such a trivial injury means death? Why risk the animals life if you love it so much? Do you know how many basketball teams we would have if a sprained ankle meant death?? I'm sure I'd stop balling and playing ball right now.