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Racing suspended at Churchill Downs after 12 horses die
Trending Views ^ | 6-4-2023 | Frank

Posted on 06/04/2023 12:13:15 PM PDT by Drastic

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To: the OlLine Rebel

and dont under estimate how much people care about the great champions. To this day, every week, Claiborne Farm gets sent roses from all over the world to put on Secretariats grave, and he died 34 years ago. Ive been there and seen it...


61 posted on 06/05/2023 1:24:55 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: Jane Long

Maybe a disease lurking in the structure, like staph in old hospital buildings.


62 posted on 06/05/2023 4:21:14 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: imardmd1

I read “Idiots Guide To Horse Training” last week.


63 posted on 06/05/2023 5:10:25 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: basalt; the OlLine Rebel
...that was flat out weird...

Actually, it isn't a weird comment at all. There is logical reasoning in action.

What is weird is your reaction to his statement. It shows the entire world two things: 1, You can't follow someone else's reasoning; 2, You are not very polite to your fellows.

So, let me stir the pot. Is horse racing a sport for horses, or people? Is this a proxy race for owners who are to old and fat to engage in a race, or is it something for dwarfs?

64 posted on 06/05/2023 5:13:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

dont quit your day job...great, more weirdness...


65 posted on 06/05/2023 8:54:47 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: Jane Long
Then, what IS the cause of now TWELVE horses dying?

Shortage of horse paste from all the anti-vaxxers using it.

66 posted on 06/05/2023 8:57:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: John S Mosby

Learn something new every day.

Tommy Burns, a.k.a. The Sandman


67 posted on 06/05/2023 9:02:38 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Drastic

The Kentucky Derby is the vehicle for mint-julips.


68 posted on 06/05/2023 9:03:39 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: Irish Eyes

Yes it was Tommy Burns who outed Druck— wiki story in Lisa then Druck... then Rielle Hunter:

“In 1981, 17-year-old Lisa Druck of Ocala, Florida (now known as Rielle Hunter) owned and rode a show horse named Henry the Hawk. Because Lisa (born June 6, 1964) was underage, her finances were controlled by her father, James Druck (born 1934), an attorney and owner of Eagle Nest Farm. Druck’s legal practice consisted of defending insurance companies against claims, and he knew that if a horse were electrocuted in a certain manner, it would be very difficult for a veterinary pathologist to find signs of foul play and the death would be chalked up to colic. According to ABC News, Lisa was “a prize-winning equestrian when her father was implicated in an insidious plot to electrocute horses for insurance money.”[8]

In the early 1990s, following James Druck’s death, convicted horse-killer and FBI informant Tommy Burns told authorities and reporters that James Druck had first attempted to sell his daughter’s horse for $150,000, but the highest offer he received was only $125,000. He then hired Burns and personally taught him how to electrocute horses, even going so far as to buy Burns’ first set of electrocution tools.[1] The first horse that Druck hired Burns to kill was Henry the Hawk, whose life insurance policy was worth $150,000. James Druck thus started Tommy Burns on a 10-year-long career as a “horse murderer”.[1]

James Druck collected on a $150,000 insurance policy for arranging the killing of his daughter’s horse in 1982, but he was under investigation by the FBI[9] when he died of cancer in Tampa, Florida in 1990”


69 posted on 06/05/2023 12:07:27 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: basalt

Too late, I’m retired. ;-D Too much time on my hands, so I poke stuff.


70 posted on 06/05/2023 1:10:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Drastic

COVID vaxxes?


71 posted on 06/05/2023 1:11:16 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: John S Mosby

Can not believe I never heard of him do not think that is something I would have forgotten.
My experience with running horses was mainly in CA and some in AZ.


72 posted on 06/05/2023 3:38:28 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Drastic

But in other news, the dog food plant is booming.


73 posted on 06/05/2023 6:24:17 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Paal Gulli

Stop making sense. We can’t have obvious truth when rumors are an option...


74 posted on 06/05/2023 6:26:59 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Irish Eyes

Lisa Druck his daughter, married name Rielle Druck Hunter, and then she was the baby momma for NC Sen. John Edwards (remember Kerry/Edwards for President/VP) and then John Edwards for President. Campaign collapsed after elaborate evasions over the fact he had a baby by her— quite a lot of demonrat maneuvering including a dude in his campaign volunteering to cite himself as the father (fake). The story of her daddy killing horses was a side story that Edwards tried to cover up as well. John Edwards— a real scum sucker lawyer. They left out his Haitian scam “volunteer” work with Hitlery and Bill Clinton in the earthquake recovery— because the “work” also included child paedo trafficking- not revealed fully. Hillary made sure her worthless brother in Miami— Rodham— got a gold mine concession out of the Haitian criminal oligarchy there. Edwards still chasing nookie (any color) in Haiti.

Druck killed his daughter’s favorite quarter horse for the insurance money he paid on it (she hated him for it). Druck was a scum lawyer in Ocala FL (Marion County). Huge thoroughbred farms (Saudi Royal Family among many others, and the home of the Gypsy Vanner breed- not racehorses). Great grasslands, lot of rain and uh, home of Dixie Horse Mafia so it is said.


75 posted on 06/05/2023 9:43:40 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jane Long

The horses are now carrying StrideSafe cell devices, which emit radio frequencies. Radiation.


76 posted on 06/10/2023 10:30:58 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven)
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