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At the Risk of Beating a Dead Horse, the Sport of Kings is in Trouble

Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:25:21 PM
Putting down galliant fillies like Eight Belles is only one of horse racing's serious problems

Tomorrow, Lone Star Park holds one of its biggest days of the year, and after a disastrous and embarrassing Kentucky Derby, horse racing could use some good news. Maybe that’s why Lone Star Park is trotting out the nation’s only female bugler to play the Call to the Post.

How progressive of them.

The bugle call does give me goose bumps, growing up in a horse racing family and all, but if the sport really wanted to do something progressive it would start with its cheats.

Category: Horses in General; Lone Star Park in Specific
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