Kentucky Derby

They shoot them right on the track ,was at a race and a horse went down they brought out screens to block it from the crowd.

ive seen stuff like that happen when a horse breaks a leg or some other injury during a race, not uncommon...

the first post was sarcastic "oh they shoot all the losers out back after the race"...

My comment was directed towards that...

Yall need to keep up LOL.
 
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Well I had a honey bee on AOC and she didn't show either!
There were quite of few AOC look a likes there
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Could be the horse is just an asshole. My last heel horse was like that. He wouldn't bite at people, but anything w/ 4 legs inside his personal space was fair game.
Best horse I ever had would do that. Sorting calves in the corrals, she'd bite the shit out of whatever old hide was in her way. Mare of course.....she could be a real bitch but man she could turn a cow.
 
We had a mustang when I was a kid. When you went to get her, she would step on your foot. Not enough to hurt, but enough pressure to keep you from mounting.
 
We had a mustang when I was a kid. When you went to get her, she would step on your foot. Not enough to hurt, but enough pressure to keep you from mounting.
we had a horse like that.. Fk'n bitch. I was 16, she stepped on my foot and wouldn't move. I had to rock her off with my shoulder in her shoulder.
She stared at me the whole time I was doing it. Needless to say, I learned a lesson that day.
 
Some friends of ours have horses and mules for elk hunting. They have one horse that’s a giant douche to the other horses and mules. He’s always been good to people but bites the crap out of the other horses. Horses have a pecking order and the lowest horse is higher than the highest mule. Their top mule will stay in her place but when Tonka tries to pull his crap she’ll let him know she doesn’t play games. I like her.
 
we had a horse like that.. Fk'n bitch. I was 16, she stepped on my foot and wouldn't move. I had to rock her off with my shoulder in her shoulder.
She stared at me the whole time I was doing it. Needless to say, I learned a lesson that day.
2x4 will fix that.
You hurt me, I hurt you!
 
Some friends of ours have horses and mules for elk hunting. They have one horse that’s a giant douche to the other horses and mules. He’s always been good to people but bites the crap out of the other horses. Horses have a pecking order and the lowest horse is higher than the highest mule. Their top mule will stay in her place but when Tonka tries to pull his crap she’ll let him know she doesn’t play games. I like her.
If a horse and a mule fight I know where I’m putting my money…….
 
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If a horse and a mule fight I know where I’m putting my money…….
Grandfather had a mule. This mule did NOT like dogs. Granddad said, the mule could kick a dog, with full packs on. I asked him how. He said, he'd watch the mules ears move, like radar, BOOOM. Send a dog into the outer space. Dogs never messed with THIS mule.
Lol, Dad said, it was the most amazing thing to watch.
edit - about mule and horses fighting. I never seen a fight, but my Grandfather and Dad has (back in the 1900s everyone had mules :)
Dad said a Jack in a fight is mean as hell; they are NOT afraid to bite.​
 
Some horses are biters. It's generally not aggression, but there are exceptions. My daughter's last competitive horse was a thoroughbred. It would follow us around like a puppy, never needed a halter around the barn, and would like to gently nibble on my shoulder when I was holding him at shows. As much personality as a nice dog. Loved being around them.

They make toys for them to nibble on.

Mules and/or donkeys are common in pastures here, they keep predators away.
 
What was the deal with the winning horse trying to eat the other horse as it was lead from the track?

Don’t they feed those animals?
Stallions are like that, mean and nasty. You buy special insurance to keep a stallion, put them away from your other horses and keep people away, stallions will reach out from the fence and bite anyone close by, stallion chain is a must, can't show that on TV or that they also hang pork.

 
Good point. Both of ours were "fixed", it's been so long, I had not considered that.

Had one I cared for one day, I forget what they call the series (found it - ISHA) where the school kids get assigned a random horse - this was before my daughter "got serious" and we bought her own horse(s). He was an absolute beauty, white, and as gentle as a house pet. I got to know him that day and help the kids understand how to ride him. It brings tears to me now to think back - that night a truck ran into the fence and several horses got out. Mine was one of several killed by traffic.

It's mind blowing to be around such a huge creature that can be so gentle.
 
We had a mustang when I was a kid. When you went to get her, she would step on your foot. Not enough to hurt, but enough pressure to keep you from mounting.
I managed to spook a mustang up in the mountains of WY (Medicine Bow), had to bail before I feared we would go over a cliff. I thought I was the tough guy for choosing her over the "trail" horses. I had been eyeing her for days and wanted to say I had ridden a mustang. Totally my fault, was taking off a poncho after a hail storm about 6hrs into an all-day ride. Took off my hat right when she looked back. Got pretty beat up on the rocks but no choice but to climb back up and keep going.

She was one heck of a powerful ride for her size. I rode her the rest of our stay there. Then I rode my daughter's first thoroughbred several years later. Holy smokes. Like comparing a Lamborghini to a Miata (and, yes, I've driven Lamborghinis and other supercars)..

We lost the horses that night in a snow storm (in August!) - they were all just scattered around the ranch grazing when we finally made it back. Took us longer to come down the mountain in the supply truck (8 of us and 6 saddles) than it had to ride up there the day before. :D

Memories.
 
They said he bite people during day, it looked like the guy wanted to punch him in the head at one point trying to control him.
Because he is a mean sob. The pony guy was more interested in the interview than catching and leading him off. He should of got the hell out of the way and let the regular pony guy handle him. He probably got his ass chewed for jerking on the rein like he did. That horse is going to be sore mouthed for awhile. Million dollar horses are handled better than that. His regular handlers knew how to stay out of reach and control him.
 
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That stallion just made big bucks for his owners, in stud fees for winning the KD, winning the Triple and the girls will be lined up, he will retire in luxury. Considering how many are bred and how many make it, the odds are very poor.

Sgt. Reckless was one hell of small horse/pony, devoted her life to the Marines she loved, to the point they gave up their flak jackets to protect her, brought her back to the USA.


The book is a good read, the statue at the Kentucky Horse Park and the one at Camp Pendleton are worth seeing.

Equines are one of mans best friends right up there with the Canine.
 
Their sole function is to turn grass into shit, and they’re born looking for a place to die. It’s too damned hot in Texas to mess with a sweaty-assed horse 9 months of the year, and too cold the other three. But, I do occasionally miss ours. Occasionally…
Ours have one additional function, and that is to make my daughter happy. After they lose that ability, I will be knee deep in glue and horse food.
 
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We sold ours. 7-figures each. Both were Belmont winners, but she rode USHJA. Out-rode the first, went to college then military for 2nd. The next owners were happy.
 
We sold ours. 7-figures each. Both were Belmont winners, but she rode USHJA. Out-rode the first, went to college then military for 2nd. The next owners were happy.
That's the thing about the Triple Crown participants. They don't have to win. Getting there gives them a bloodline that makes them worth a fortune as stud horses. Short of an injury like a broken leg (rare) these horses will get put at stud and make their owners a boatload of money.

I grew up on a horse farm. Which is why I hate horses. I like horsepower. Don't have to feed it or muck it or chase it around in -40 weather trying to put blankets on horsepower. The 'only' benefit was an endless stream of cute teenage girls hanging around (all named Megan). Anyhoo... horses bite. Some 'crib' which means that they chew fences and stalls. It's a bad habit. But they also bite people. Some hard. And mean. On more than one occasion, I bit back. Or punched them Mongo style, and, amazing, they never bit me again. Others maybe. But not me.

I still have two pieces of a farriers rasp that I use for stock shaping and woodworking. It became a "Two Piece" rasp when I broke it on the withers of a horse that kicked me while I was shoeing it. She never kicked me again. I got chewed out for that. Not hitting the horse. But for breaking a $30 rasp.

Anyhoo... Could give a rats ass about horses... except to make fun of them. But I guess if the apocalypse happens, at least I know how to ride them, doctor them, shoe them, saddle them... So there is that.

Sirhr

PS... for those who don't know... horsemanship has 'so' disappeared from most of the American population that the Army Special Forces had to send people to riding school just to 're-learn' horse skills. With great foresight, guys from ODA555 (later known as the Triple Nickel and the 'horse soldiers') were trained before 9-11. And some SF were at ranches in the western US on 9-11. But until the late 1990's, when SF really started to see a need for horse-skills... the Army regarded horses as little more than ceremonial. Yeah. Except in the Third World. Don't under-rate the skills you learn around horses. Even if they are miserable glue-pots. Until they aren't.
 
As I said, both of ours were "fixed". They were valuable as competitive jumpers.

I absolutely relish the time I've spent around horses, both out west and locally in competition. Gorgeous animals.
Ask @lowlight about the price of hunter/jumpers and dressage horses ;-) Ah ha hahaha.

My 'own' horse was a former Dressage horse. A grey. 17.2 hands. Best natured horse ever. He was almost 20 when he died. Older than me at the time!

Sirhr
 
Ask @lowlight about the price of hunter/jumpers and dressage horses ;-) Ah ha hahaha.

Oh, yeah. She competed against riders on warmbloods costing 1/4million or more.

She out-rode them on our cheap-ass OTTB's with ease. But she was never "competitive", and just walked away when she started college, then joined the military. Now we shoot 100yd iron-sights, race autocross and she wants to get a motorcycle, but her mom would have a stroke. We rode dirt bikes since she was an early teen.

One of her friends was fiercely competitive but lacked the talent. It was interesting to watch how they evolved.
 
I will second everything that Sirh said. When we came home from the Navy in ‘88, I was racing Mx, and my wife wanted something to ride. I figured a horse would be cheaper than a pool boy, but I may have been wrong. Over the years we have had horses ever since then, but it is more my wife’s gig. I do help with the feed, hay and heavy lifting, to try to help my wife out. I got a big education in the horse world when I went to Ok Horse Shoeing school to become a farrier. I have worked on a lot of horses, and a lot of horses that started out as rank sob’s, and took a little “training” to get straight. One thing that is funny about girls and women and their horses. You aren’t doing anything bad to the horse, just going about your business, and trimming or whatever, and that horse-due to poor and lack of training on the owners part- reaches down and bites the shit out of you. I WILL NOT tolerate that under any condition. That’s when the horse got Mongo’d, and I’ve broken a number of rasps on a horses ass. That’s when the girl/woman goes apeshit because you hit her baby. There was a reason they couldn’t get anyone to work on their horse, and the reason is in the mirror. I also discovered that I am to big to be a farrier. You can make a lot of money, but it is very hard work, and you will occasionally get hurt. There are so many sides to the horse world. I don’t really care about horses, but my wife likes them, soooo........