Does a horse really need a jockey to win the Derby? What if a horse throws it's jockey and still is first at the finish? How come the jockey and the owner get all the credit for winning the Derby? What about the horse, doesn't it get a week or two off and extra oats or something? Where do they find all these people who become jockeys? When yuo were growing up, did you REALLY want to become a jockey? And also, just who is the colorblind person who decides what colors the jockeys must wear? Would you dress like that?
Incidentally, a horse did win the 2025 Kentucky Derby. Yaa, horsie!
We've owned horses and still have one. We definitely are not fans of horse racing although we have visited CHD's and we did watch the race but none of the 4.5 hours that preceded it. Best part was seeing several other jockeys giving congrats to the winner. That's something I don't recall seeing before.
The winners live a great life. See photo. Losers sent to glue factory.
Poor horse was covered in mud, it was nice that they washed his face before the big celebration.
Little people of the world have more to aspire to if they want to be jockeys , you can't be tall and be a jockey it seems, power to weight means something in horseraces too. I hope Trump wasn't watching yesterday , 90% of the jockeys were immigrants, with English as a second language.
We've owned horses and still have one. We definitely are not fans of horse racing although we have visited CHD's and we did watch the race but none of the 4.5 hours that preceded it. Best part was seeing several other jockeys giving congrats to the winner. That's something I don't recall seeing before.
The winners live a great life. See photo. Losers sent to glue factory.
Is she reading a book or something? Maybe considering what to watch on TV later?
the dark side of horse racing is nothing to be proud of I guess. I am also surprised how banned owners are allowed to return like nothing ever happened.
I don't know that I ever heard that song. Nice way to romanticize horse racing. And ignore the doping, the cruelty, the crookedness, etc. of the sport. Still we do have a poster for Secretariat in the basement that been there for whatever, 40 years?
I am somewhat amused by the fact that there isn't supposed to be any artificial insemination in race horsea.
Somehow I can visualize an industrial spy, uhm shall we say 'procuring' a semen sample of a champion in the middle of the night.
